Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Love is a serious mental disease.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man...

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man...

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The good is the beautiful.

The good is the beautiful.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing...

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing...

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not...

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not...

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon...

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon...

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the...

Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the...

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said...

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said...

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of...

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of...

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts...

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts...