There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
A person's life persuades better than his word.
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
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.
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.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
There is honor in being a dog.
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
It is no easy task to be good.
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.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
A promise made must be a promise kept.
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