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No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues
Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.
All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.
The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.
A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.
The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.