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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ”
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. ”
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ”
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ”
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. ”
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ”
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ”
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. ”
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ”
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. ”