Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. "

Related Quotes:

" No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. "

" Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. "

" All men by nature desire knowledge. "

" To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. "

" Well begun is half done. "

" Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season. "

" 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. "

" A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. "

" The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. "

" If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. "

" Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. "

" He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. "

" The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. "

" Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. "

" All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. "

" Nature does nothing in vain. "

" Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand. "

" Man is by nature a political animal. "

" The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning. "

" The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. "

" Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. "

" Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. "

" Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. "

" Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. "

" The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. "

" What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. "

" All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "

" Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. "

" It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. "

" A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. "