If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
Bad men are full of repentance.
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
The greatest victory is over self.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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