He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young...

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young...

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,...

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in...

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in...

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some...

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some...

Limits exist only in the mind

Limits exist only in the mind

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through...

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through...

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good...

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good...

Nature does nothing in vain.

Nature does nothing in vain.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make...

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make...

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in...

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in...

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their...

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their...

Education is the best provision for old age.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim...

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim...

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the...

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the...

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.