“Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.”

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

By the work one knows the workman.

We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

I bend and do not break.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

We ought to consider the end in everything.

Religion: Together we can find the cure.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.