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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.
Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.
Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
You can never learn anything that you did not already know
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.
Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose