- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- Pleasure in the job put perfection in the work.
- The gods too are fond of a joke.
- We are what we repeatedly do.
- Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
- It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends
- Education is the best provision for old age.
- Hope is a waking dream.
- I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
- What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- All men by nature desire knowledge.
- For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
- One swallow does not make a summer.
- Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
- To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
- To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
- We make war that we may live in peace.
- We must as second best...take the least of the evils.
- With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
- A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
- Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
- He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
- It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
- Law is order, and good law is good order.
- Man is by nature a political animal.
- Nature does nothing uselessly.
- The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
- They should rule who are able to rule best.
- Well begun is half done.
- A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
- A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
- Evil draws men together.
- It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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