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- Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person…
- We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part…
- All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
- Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only…
- Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other…
- Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other…
- For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and…
- There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
- But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
- In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life;…
- Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the…
- In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
- Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to…
- And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of…
- Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the…
- Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
- It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
- We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's…
- There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
- In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.
- A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can…
- I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
- Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without…
- I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one,…
- Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour