Society and the World

I don't think we shall quarrel about a word the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

I am smart because I know I nothing.

You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?

You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

You should not honor men more than truth.

He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.

He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?

He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

Have you not perceived that imitations, whether of bodily gestures, tones of voice, or modes of thought, if they be persevered in from an early age, are apt to grow into habits and a second nature?

Great crimes and pure evil come only from vigorous natures perverted by upbringing; a weak nature never does anything great, good or evil.

God is the cause only of good.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

Evil is more opposed to the good than to the no-good.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

Excellence must be the health and wellbeing of the soul.

Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have.

Does not every man love that which he deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of them? people regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.