The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god..

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late..

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man..

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference..

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms;….

All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, a….

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later..

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not fo….

A promise made must be a promise kept..

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were..

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse..

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously..

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them..

All learning is derived from things previously known..

Beauty is the gift of God.

I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, w….

Everyone honors the wise..

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others..

There is honor in being a dog..

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty..

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution..