A gentleman is not disturbed by anything
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .
Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.
Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.
We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
A person's life persuades better than his word.
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
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