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You can never learn anything that you did not already know

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.

Peace is more difficult than war.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

The life of the mind is only open to rich people.

Philosophy can make people sick.

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

Evil brings men together.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

We Can't learn without pain.

Man is a political animal. A man who lives alone is either a Beast or a God

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

Hope is the dream of a waking man

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

He who is a citizen in a democracy will often not be a citizen in an oligarchy.

Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life ... even nicotine cravings

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue ..

Actions which produce [virtue] are those which increase it, and also, if differently performed, destroy it.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

Whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.

The intention makes the crime.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous. (VII)

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something

Only you can take you to Funkytown.

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

It is no easy task to be good.

Happiness is activity of soul.

Art takes nature as its model.

People generally despise where they flatter.

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

The best things are placed between extremes.

All communication must lead to change

Man by Nature desires to know.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science ... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

Happiness depends on ourselves.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

Each type of activity produces the corresponding sort of person

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.