“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Happiness“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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Happiness“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”
Fear“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
Friendship“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“He who hath many friends hath none.”
Friendship“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
Nature“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Life“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”
Mom“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”
Hope“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
Men“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
Friendship“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
Nature“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“Change in all things is sweet.”
Change“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Education“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“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
Hope“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
Courage“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
Education“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”
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