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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they were equal in any respect, they were equal absolutely. - [Democracy] Different men seek happiness in different ways and by different means. - [Happiness] Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in deserving them. - [Dignity] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. - [Dignity] Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. - [Education] Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. - [Equality] Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. - [Thieves] For his friend is another self. - [Friends] For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal. - [Imitation] Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds. - [Friends] Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good. - [Friends] Friendship is communion. - [Friendship] Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. - [Melancholy] Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient. - [Happiness] Happiness depends upon ourselves. - [Happiness] Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it. - [Happiness] Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. - [Happiness] Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure. - [Happiness] He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude. - [Solitude] He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved. - [Benefit] He who hath many friends, hath none. - [Friends] He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. - [Leaders] 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. - [Society] How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms. - [Dispute] Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. - [Humor] Displaying page 2 of 7 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7
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