It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Wit is educated insolence.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Most people would rather give than get affection.
All men by nature desire to know.
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
