“Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.”
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
