Society and the World

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

The test of any man lies in action.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Bad company corrupts good character.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Culture makes all men gentle.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Much learning does not teach understanding.