Learn Through Quotations

“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.”

“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”

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

“Hope is a waking dream.”

“The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.”

“Beauty is the gift of God.”

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

“Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.”

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“All men by nature desire to know.”

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

“We make war that we may live in peace.”

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.”