Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.