“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
Love“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”
Men“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
Love“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“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Life“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Happiness“But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.”
Change“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”
Happiness“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”
Men“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
Nature“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“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“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
History“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
Friendship“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Friendship“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”
Religion“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Education“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
Best“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
Beauty“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”
Truth“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
Education“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.”
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