111 quotes found
“It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the the...”
“the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of gove...”
“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
“Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring,...”
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
“Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition”
“men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.”
“those, who are believed to be most selfabased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious”
“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to guide men by reason, but to restrain them by fear, so that the...”
“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”
“everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see ...”
“In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.”
“self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.”
“Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.”
“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
“Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.”
“One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.”
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
