No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatestgood.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
He who is of 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.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.