Art, Beauty
She is not a beautiful woman whose ankle or arm is praised, but she whose general appearance makes you forget to admire her single attributes.
There is nothing more beautiful than being so dear to your wife that you become dear to yourself.
If you wish to be loved, love.
All art is an imitation of nature.
A deformity of the body does not affect a beautiful soul, but the beauty of the soul is reflected in the body.
Knowledge
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
If you offered me wisdom on condition that I keep it to myself, without communicating it to anyone, I would not want it.
There are things that, to know them, it is not enough to have learned them.
All beautiful and true ideas belong to everyone.
We do not study to live, but for school.
The idle without study is like the death and sepulture of a live man.
Law should be kept short so that the unlearned can understand it easily.
The advantage is reciprocal, because when men teach, they learn.
True happiness comes from enjoying the present without being anxious of the future.
Everything that is ingrained and congenital can be mitigated by education, but not beaten.
You should live in such a way that you trust your own self with nothing which you could not entrust even to your enemies.
It is better to know of useless things than to know of nothing.
Quiet yourself first if you wish others to be quiet.
No one ever became wise by chance.
In teaching, one learns.
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
Men believe more with what they see than what they hear, which is why it is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
Education demands the greatest care, because it influences over entire lifespans.
Progress achieved through formal training is slow, but immediate and effective when obtained through example.
Philosophy is good advice.
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