Boundaries don’t protect rivers, people do.
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
What we expect, that we find.
Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.
I say that habit’s but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men’s nature in the end.
Education begins at the level of the learner.
A friend is another I.
Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.
We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.
At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose.
Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.
Have a definite, clear, practical ideal – a goal, an objective.
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold.
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.