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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Character is habitual action.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

We must add in a complete life. One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.

Justice and equity are therefore the same thing, and both are good, though equity is the better.

A friend is a second self.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Change in all things is sweet.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.