Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Opinions is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
A well begun is half ended.
I have good hope that there is something after death.
Life must be lived as play.
Man is a being in search of meaning.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Love is a serious mental disease.
I a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
We do not learn, and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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