“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
Age“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
Beauty“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
Age“We make war that we may live in peace.”
Peace“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”
Good“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”
Best“He who hath many friends hath none.”
Friendship“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Life“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
Art“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“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
Great“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.”
Nature“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.”
Good“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
Friendship“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”
Time“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”
Fear“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
Best“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
Best“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.”
Power“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”
Art“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
Art“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
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