To love someone is to identify with them.
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.
Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
You can never learn anything that you did not already know
Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance
The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.
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.
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.
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.
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