Echoes

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

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

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

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

There are some men who expose themselves to damnation so foolishly by avarice, by brutality, by debauches, by violence, by excesses, by blasphemies! ...it is always a great folly for a man to expose himself to damnation... He must despise desire and its kingdom, and aspire to that kingdom of love in which all the subjects breathe nothing but love, and desire nothing but the benefits of love.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. I swear by non-violence because I know that it alone conduces to the highest good of mankind, not merely in the next world, but in this also. I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.

Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself or others.

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

Bear in mind, that if through toil you accomplish a good deed, that toil will quickly pass from you, the good deed will not leave you so long as you live; but if through pleasure you do anything dishonourable, the pleasure will quickly pass away, that dishonourable act will remain with you for ever.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend — nay are dragged — towards evil.

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

For in all adversity of fortune, the most unfortunate kind of misfortune is to have been happy.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.