Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason..

Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity..

Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed,….

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them thro….

The hardest victory is the victory over self..

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine..

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law..

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flyi….

Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on….

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best….

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one..

Those who act receive the prizes..

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had b….

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules..

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant….

For good is simple, evil manifold..

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason..

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like….

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some ca….

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in orde….

Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in its….