It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others' ingratitude.
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.
There is no love without suffering.
This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.
A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.
It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.