The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. |
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. |
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. |
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. |
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. |
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. |
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. |
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. |
Education is the best provision for old age. |
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. |