Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Wit is educated insolence.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Man is by nature a political animal.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Nature does nothing in vain.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Bad men are full of repentance.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Hope is a waking dream.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The secret to humor is surprise.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.