Society and the World

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

God has entrusted me with myself.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.