Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
Either a beast or a god.
Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain.
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action.
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
Greed has no boundaries.
When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
Love is the cause of unity in all things.