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Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue
The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.
Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.
Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.
The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.
Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.
The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.
The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.