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