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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts. - [Taste] The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. - [Teaching] The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it. - [Knowledge] The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - [Education] The state exists for the sake of a good life, and not for the sake of life only. - [States] The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. - [Value] The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. - [Justice] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. - [Inequality] There is always something new out of Libya. - [Africa : Novelty] There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia.] - quoted by Burton's in "Anatomy of Melancholy" [Genius] There must be in prudence also some master virtue. - [Prudence] Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. - [Education] Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling. - [Past] To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary,--nature, study, and practice. - [Ability] To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward. - [Suicide] To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. - [Cowards] To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. - [Learning] Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones. - [Virtue] We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - [Action] We cannot learn without pain. - [Learning] We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. - [Leisure] We make war that we may live in peace. - [War] We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. - [Soul] We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means. - [Goals] We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us. - [Friends] Displaying page 5 of 7 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7
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