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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entert ... Read Full Quote
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is swe ... Read Full Quote
...happiness is the highest good, being a realization a ... Read Full Quote
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need ... Read Full Quote
Wit is educated insolence. ... Read Full Quote
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not ... Read Full Quote
It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that-- ... Read Full Quote
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he ... Read Full Quote
Man is by nature a political animal. ... Read Full Quote
The high minded man must care more for the truth than f ... Read Full Quote
Education is the best provision for old age. ... Read Full Quote
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come. ... Read Full Quote
Change in all things is sweet. ... Read Full Quote
All human actions have one or more of these seven cause ... Read Full Quote
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. ... Read Full Quote
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are ... Read Full Quote
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children becau ... Read Full Quote
Philosophy is the science which considers truth. ... Read Full Quote
We make war that we may live in peace. ... Read Full Quote
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not a ... Read Full Quote
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is t ... Read Full Quote
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ... Read Full Quote
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works ... Read Full Quote
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. ... Read Full Quote
All proofs rest on premises. ... Read Full Quote
Nature does nothing uselessly. ... Read Full Quote
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. ... Read Full Quote
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desire ... Read Full Quote
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. ... Read Full Quote
The gods too are fond of a joke. ... Read Full Quote
What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ... Read Full Quote
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is ... Read Full Quote
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishe ... Read Full Quote
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him wh ... Read Full Quote
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplie ... Read Full Quote
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most ... Read Full Quote
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends ... Read Full Quote
Different men seek after happiness in different ways an ... Read Full Quote
Happiness depends upon ourselves. ... Read Full Quote
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improba ... Read Full Quote
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the ... Read Full Quote
All men by nature desire knowledge. ... Read Full Quote
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ... Read Full Quote
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous on ... Read Full Quote
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not ... Read Full Quote
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry ... Read Full Quote
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chie ... Read Full Quote
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor ... Read Full Quote
A friend is a second self. ... Read Full Quote
It is in justice that the ordering of society is center ... Read Full Quote
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall ... Read Full Quote
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the c ... Read Full Quote
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ... Read Full Quote
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ... Read Full Quote
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a ... Read Full Quote
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is n ... Read Full Quote
Law is mind without reason. ... Read Full Quote
The only stable state is the one in which all men are e ... Read Full Quote
To perceive is to suffer. ... Read Full Quote
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he ... Read Full Quote
Hope is a waking dream. ... Read Full Quote
We are what we repeatedly do. ... Read Full Quote
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ... Read Full Quote
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him w ... Read Full Quote
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without bein ... Read Full Quote
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a ... Read Full Quote
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxica ... Read Full Quote
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ... Read Full Quote
We must as second best...take the least of the evils. ... Read Full Quote
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, ... Read Full Quote
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed ... Read Full Quote
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. ... Read Full Quote
One swallow does not make a summer. ... Read Full Quote
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is t ... Read Full Quote
With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, bu ... Read Full Quote
In all things of nature there is something of the marve ... Read Full Quote
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely w ... Read Full Quote
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the pow ... Read Full Quote
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and mos ... Read Full Quote
Law is order, and good law is good order. ... Read Full Quote
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, e ... Read Full Quote
The best political community is formed by citizens of t ... Read Full Quote
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effecti ... Read Full Quote
A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end. ... Read Full Quote
The basis of a democratic state is liberty. ... Read Full Quote
Well begun is half done. ... Read Full Quote
They should rule who are able to rule best. ... Read Full Quote
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an uncon ... Read Full Quote
Evil draws men together. ... Read Full Quote