“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.”
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“If the world should break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless.”
“Enjoy the present smiling hour, And put it out of Fortune's power.”
“Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.”
“To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”
“Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium.”
“The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.”
“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold.”
“Ask yourself what “problem” you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now.”