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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.
That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.