A person's life persuades better than his word.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
There is honor in being a dog.
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.
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.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
A promise made must be a promise kept.
Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.
It is no easy task to be good.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
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