What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Our characters are the result of our conduct.
Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
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 bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
All art is concerned with coming into being.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
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.
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.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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