Society and the World

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise. to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Know not to revere human things too much.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.