Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it."
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
One may go wrong in many ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy
to fail and difficult to succeed, easy to miss the target and difficult to
hit it.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, 'As much as the living are to the dead.'
Diogenes Laetius
Education is the best provision for old age.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.
The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Shakespeare suffered breech of copyright. In 1609, many of his sonnets were published without his permission.
