“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“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”
Wisdom“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“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”
Food“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.”
Power“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.”
Men“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.”
Money“According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.”
Nature“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
Education“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”
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“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.”
Food“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
Beauty“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
Sympathy“Hatred is inveterate anger.”
Anger“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“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”
Education“While there's life, there's hope.”
Hope“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”
Peace“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.”
Marriage“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”
Nature“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
Friendship