It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.
Well begun is half done.
It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
All learning is derived from things previously known.
The quality of life is determined by its activities.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.
Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
Happiness depends on ourselves.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
What we expect, that we find.
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