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Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.
Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.
Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.
For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.