It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
From Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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