💬 Quotes

"Men of few words are the best men."

"War hath no ill, no harm, / Despoiling all the graces of the land, / As lack of marriage."

"Nothing can ever be created out of nothing, by divine power."

"I will go seek some ducks: why is this, and why, I pray you, are you not ashamed? As pork is to my stomach, so is the oath which you have sworn to his majesty."

"All nature then, as it exists by itself, is founded on two things: there are bodies and there is void in which these bodies are placed and through which they move about."

"Death is nothing to us, nor does it concern us a least, since the nature of the mind is mortal."

"Look at the stars in the sky, look at the earth, look at the sea; nothing of all this is divine, nothing is created by the gods, but everything is governed by natural laws."

"Sweet is it, when on the great sea the winds are buffeting the waters, to gaze from the land on another's great struggles."

"Custom and ingrained habit make us blind to marvels; we cease to wonder at the daily spectacle of the universe."

"Knowledge unfetters a childs mind. Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

"A man's rights are the measure of his duties, and he who is true to his own rights can never be false to the duties of others."

"Conscience cannot stand much in the presence of profit."

"Slaves are generally expected to sing, but seldom to think."

"Education and slavery are incompatible elements."

"To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one."

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"Virtue, then, is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean, i.e. the mean relative to us, this being determined by a rational principle, and by that principle by which the man of practical wisdom would determine it."

"Happiness, then, is something final and self-sufficient, and is the end of action."

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."

"Both fear and confidence and appetite and anger and pity and in general pleasure and pain may be felt both too much and too little, and in both cases not well; but to feel them at the right times, with reference to the right objects, towards the right people, with the right motive, and in the right way, is what is both intermediate and best, and this is characteristic of virtue."