- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- No government can stand which is not founded upon justice.
- The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
- There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
- What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
- Hope is a waking dream.
- To enjoy the things we ought
and to hate the things we ought
has the greatest bearings on
excellence of character. - Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- It concerns us to know the purpose we seek in life, for than, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
- The coward has too much fear and too little courage, the rash man too much courage and too little fear.
- A friend is a second self.
- There are two parts to government; one is the actual obedience of citizens to the laws, the other part is the goodness of the laws which they obey.
- Those who educate well are more to be honored than those who produce them; for these only give them life, those the art of living well.
- Wit is educated insolence.
- Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy.
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
- Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
- Men, in general, desire what is good.
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a
thousandfold. - Hope is a waking dream.
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
- The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
- I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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