Famous Love Quotes - Our inspirational quotes

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain, a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves, but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

We become wiser by adversity, prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

Whatever begins, also ends.

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly.

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.