"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind"
"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference"
"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"
"No one loves the man whom he fears"
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts"
"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world"
"It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought"
"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law"
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way"
"Man is by nature a political animal"
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies"
"Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy"
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims"
"Hope is the dream of a waking man"
"Hope is a waking dream"
"Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully"
"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"
"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled"
"He who hath many friends hath none"
"He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature"
"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim"
"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching"
"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes"
"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"
"The law is reason, free from passion"
"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances"
"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons"
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference"
"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves"
"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved"
"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world"
"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life"
"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness"
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life"
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities"
"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness"
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular"
"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal"
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others"
"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence"
"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion"
"Change in all things is sweet"
"But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul"
"Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit"
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms"
"Bad men are full of repentance"
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst"
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy"
