Love well, be loved and do something of value.
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
Everyone honors the wise.
The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.
Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.
Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.
Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it’s your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you’re having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn’t grow you as a person.
1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.