There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.
To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
There is honor in being a dog.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
A promise made must be a promise kept.
Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
It is no easy task to be good.
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