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...”
“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 self—abased 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.”
“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.”
“Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.”
“To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.”
“There is no hope unmingled with fear and no fear unmingled with hope.”
“Peace is not an absence of war it is a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.”
