It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing...
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true gene...
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies the hardest victory is the victory over self.
Man is by nature a civic animal.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to r...
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another not because he does not feel them but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.