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"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."
"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."
"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just."
"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy."
"This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again."
"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."
"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."
"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."
"The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless."
"In time of war the laws are silent."
"Laws are silent in time of war."
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
"Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law."
"In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power."
"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed."
"An unjust peace is better than a just war."
"Peace is liberty in tranquillity."
"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live."
"Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason."
"Nature abhors annihilation."
"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth."
"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"
"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error."
"According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another."
"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."
"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."
"The sinews of war are infinite money."
"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature."
"Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense."
"If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live."
"Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
"It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal."
"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature."
"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
"The more laws, the less justice."
"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow."
"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."
"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."
"While there's life, there's hope."
"A home without books is a body without soul."
"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible."
"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."
"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration."
"Thrift is of great revenue."
"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."
"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."
"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence."
"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."
"If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains."
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."
"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."
"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes."
"Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law."
"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world."
"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."
"True nobility is exempt from fear."
"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."
"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability."
"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."
"To some extent I liken slavery to death."
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
"A man of courage is also full of faith."
"That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place."
"The best interpreter of the law is custom."
"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."
"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."
"Hatred is settled anger."
"Hatred is inveterate anger."
"Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age."
"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act."
"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."
"Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."
