The actuality of thought is life.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Nothing is what rocks dream about
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.
Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.
Wonder implies the desire to learn.
Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
Bad men are full of repentance.
Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
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