“Education is the best provision for old age.”
Age“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”
Best“Education is the best provision for old age.”
Age“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
Power“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”
Life“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”
Nature“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Life“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“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”
Men“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
Men“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
Best“Bad men are full of repentance.”
Men“We make war that we may live in peace.”
Peace“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
Truth“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“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
Power“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
Motivational“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
Wisdom“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
Best“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
Knowledge“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”
Good“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”
Men