It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
What we expect, that we find.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Happiness is the reward of virtue.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
You are what you do repeatedly.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.
To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn
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 love someone is to identify with them.
Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.
Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.
Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
No one loves the man whom he fears.
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