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Our characters are a result of our conduct. - [Character] People generally despise where they flatter. - [Despise] Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction. - [Beauty] Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. - [Truth] Plausible impossibilities should be preferred to unconvincing possibilities. - [Impossibility] Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history, for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. - [History : Poetry] Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. - [Poetry] Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard. - [Praise] Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old. - [Shame] Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think as others of what they know. - [Thought] Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. - [Suffering] Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life. - [Teachers] The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make. - [Happiness] The avarice of mankind is insatiable. - [Avarice] The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole. - [Beginnings] The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. - [Politics] The best things are placed between extremes. - [Station] The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. - [Education] The end of labor is to gain leisure. It is a great saying. - [Industry] The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants. - [Family] The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure. - [Goals] The gods too are fond of a joke. - [Humor] The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances. - [Courage] The law is reason free from passion. - [Law] The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody. - [Friends] Displaying page 4 of 7 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7
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