“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
Knowledge“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
Great“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
Knowledge“Hope is a waking dream.”
Hope“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Art“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Life“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
Nature“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
Great“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”
Great“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”
Business“Wit is educated insolence.”
Intelligence“The secret to humor is surprise.”
Humor“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”
Friendship“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
Best“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
Hope“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”
Truth“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.”
Nature“Bad men are full of repentance.”
Men“Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.”
Time“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
Love“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
Courage“The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.”
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