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For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'
There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
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.
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.
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.
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war
We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
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.
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use
For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .
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.
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.