Echoes

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

The food which a temperate man leaves upon his plate is more beneficial than that which a glutton eats.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

If you're afraid — don't do it. If you're doing it — don't be afraid.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

An immoderate diet is unhealthy, but a temperate one preserves strength.

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much;" and upon these all other precepts depend.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.