If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
Those who tell the stories rule society.
All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
Love is a serious mental disease.
Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
Do not expect justice where might is right.
Life should be lived as play.
The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
Courage is knowing what to fear.
The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
Man is a being in search of meaning.
All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
"Arguments, like men, are often pretenders."
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