We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Our characters are the result of our conduct.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
All proofs rest on premises.
God has many names, though He is only one Being.
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.
Happiness depends on ourselves.
Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
Wit is well-bred insolence.
No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
Happiness is activity.
Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).
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