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The first principle of all action is leisure.
Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Love well, be loved and do something of value.
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
The complete man must work, study and wrestle.
Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
A person's life persuades better than his word.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents
We become just by the practice of just actions.
It is likely that unlikely things should happen
Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
God has many names, though He is only one Being.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
A human being is a naturally political [animal].
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health
What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love
Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
They who are to be judges must also be performers.
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.