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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.
There is always something new coming out of Africa.
Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.
The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook
Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
The quality of life is determined by its activities.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind
Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance
In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
All learning is derived from things previously known.
When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.