No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.
All men are alike when asleep.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.
It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
Beauty is a gift of God.
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.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
It is no easy task to be good.
The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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.
There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
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