Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Wit is educated insolence.
Man is by nature a political animal.
One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
