Philosopher

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Yang terbaik adalah bangkit dari kehidupan seperti pesta, tidak haus atau mabuk.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Mereka yang tahu, lakukanlah. Mereka yang mengerti, mengajarlah.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Karena meskipun kita mencintai kebenaran dan teman-teman kita, kesalehan menuntut kita untuk menghormati kebenaran terlebih dahulu.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Mereka yang tahu, lakukanlah. Mereka yang mengerti, mengajarlah.

Wit is educated insolence.

Pujian selalu menyiratkan referensi ke standar yang lebih tinggi.

No one loves the man whom he fears.