wisdom-quotes

We make war that we may live in peace.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistrates in a state.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Those that know do. Those that understand, teach.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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