He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life
It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life.
Human beings are by nature political animals
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determin...
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they...
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.