What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing...

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit,...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit,...

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought...

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought...

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements...

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements...

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful,...

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful,...

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Well begun is half done.

Well begun is half done.

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

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

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary...

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary...

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he...

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he...

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Man punishes the action, but God the intention

Man punishes the action, but God the intention

Limits exist only in the mind

Limits exist only in the mind

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one...

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one...

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest...

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest...