“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“Quality is not an act; it is a habit.”
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.”
“To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“A true friend is one soul in two bodies.”
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths.”
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”
“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”
“To perceive is to suffer.”
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
“He who cannot be a good servant will not be a good master.”
“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects.”
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have rather talked.”
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
“Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.”
“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies.”
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
“Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.”
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”
“The secret to humor is surprise.”
“Happiness is a state of activity.”
“Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.”
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
“The law is reason, free from passion.”
“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”
“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”
“Hope is a waking dream.”
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”
“He who has many friends has none.”
“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.”
“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.”
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies.”
“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”
“No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”
“It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.”
“Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one’s material circumstances.”
“Virtue lies in our power, and likewise vice.”
“The actuality of thought is life.”
“The purpose of education is to make the citizen.”
“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”
“Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.”
“There is no genius without some touch of madness.”
“The life of money-making is one undertaken by compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking.”
“Self-sufficiency is both a necessity and a virtue.”
“In all things of nature, there is something marvelous.”
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
“Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.”
“We must as second best…take the least of the evils.”
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”