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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.
It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.
If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.
Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]
The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.
Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.
There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.
We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.