“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
Education“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”
Great“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
Education“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”
Friendship“The more laws, the less justice.”
Legal“To some extent I liken slavery to death.”
Death“A home without books is a body without soul.”
Home“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”
Nature“There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.”
Men“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”
Nature“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.”
Good“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.”
Age“If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.”
Men“The best interpreter of the law is custom.”
Best“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”
Friendship“Hatred is settled anger.”
Anger“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”
Experience“Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.”
Age“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.”
Money“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
Friendship“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
Men“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”
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