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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

For 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.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Well begun is half done.

Bad men are full of repentance.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Man is by nature a political animal.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The secret to humor is surprise.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

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

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.