The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own..

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence..

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity..

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing..

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it..

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas th….

For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural..

All men by nature desire knowledge..

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character..

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest..

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together..

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed..

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable..

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit..

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies..

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The whole is more than the sum of its parts..

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eage….

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, ….

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion dest….

The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three….