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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, Say nothing, and Be nothing.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Without friends no one would choose to live.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.
Hope is a waking dream.
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Education is the best provision for old age.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Wit is educated insolence.
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Without friends no one would choose to live.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
To perceive is to suffer.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
All men by nature desire to know.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
To perceive is to suffer.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Well begun is half done.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
We make war that we may live in peace.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
All men by nature desire to know.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Cruel is the strife of brothers.
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Bad men are full of repentance.
...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Man is by nature a political animal.
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The law is reason, free from passion.
Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
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