1. The gods too are fond of a joke.
2. Dignity consists not in possessing honors,
but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
3. We are what we repeatedly do.
4. For the things we have to learn before we can do them,
we learn by doing them.
5. Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
6. 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.
7. All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
8. It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
9. Without friends no one would choose to live,
though he had all other goods.
10. It is possible to fail in many ways...
while to succeed is possible only in one way.
11. What is a friend?
A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
12. One swallow does not make a summer.
13. Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
14. All men by nature desire knowledge.
15. Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.
16. To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
17. We make war that we may live in peace.
18. We must as second best...
take the least of the evils.
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