Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
Aristotle Quotes
Hope is a waking dream.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
People generally despise where they flatter.
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sorts of natures not to desire more, and the prevent the lower from getting more.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
