What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
All proofs rest on premises.
Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.
Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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