"Well begun is half done."

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"The law is reason unaffected by desire."

"The basis of a democratic state is liberty."

"We make war that we may live in peace."

"Law is order, and good law is good order."

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

"Liars when they speak the truth are not believed."

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."

"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen."

"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."

"It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way."

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies."

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."

"It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."

"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."

"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

"Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice."

"And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace."

"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."

"One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@BoycottLiberalism.com