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Thursday, 24 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Well begun is half done.
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
Most people would rather give than get affection.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Education is the best provision for old age.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
Cruel is the strife of brothers.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
Without friends no one would choose to live.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Happiness is activity.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness is a sort of action.
Hope is a waking dream.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Either a beast or a god.
Man is by nature a political animal.
The secret to humor is surprise.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The law is reason, free from passion.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.