At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Change in all things is sweet.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
He who hath many friends hath none.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Wit is educated insolence.
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.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Bad men are full of repentance.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Man is by nature a political animal.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Hope is a waking dream.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.