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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.
Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.
One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.