The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
All men are alike when asleep.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
A gentleman is not disturbed by anything
We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
Wit is well-bred insolence.
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
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.
He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.
Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
A person's life persuades better than his word.
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
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