The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
Beauty is a gift of God.
No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
A friend is another I.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.
It is no easy task to be good.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
Bad men are full of repentance.
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.
Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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