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QUOTES
Sidney | Aristotle | Cicero
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 Sydney
Quotes:
Fruits are always of the same
nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the
fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of
men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but
if virtue has the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Liars need to have good memories.
Liberty
cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are
corrupted.
I had from my youth endeavored to uphold the
common rights of mankind, the law of this land, and the true Protestant
religion, against all principles, arbitrary power, and popery, and I do now
willingly lay down my life for the same.
 Aristotle
Quotes:
A true friend is one soul in
two bodies.
A tyrant must put on the
appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of
illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the
other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods
on his side.
All
human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature,
compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
All
men by nature desire to know.
All
virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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.
At
his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he
is the worst.
Bashfulness
is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Both
oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their
arms.
Courage
is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the
others.
Democracy
arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in
all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Democracy
is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Different
men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make
for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Happiness
depends upon ourselves.
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.
If
liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in
democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government
to the utmost.
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.
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.
Politicians
also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond
political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
The
law is reason, free from passion.
 Cicero
Quotes:
A man full of courage
is also full of faith.
Before beginning, plan
carefully.
Friendship was given
by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
Gratitude is not only
the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
It is our special
duty, that if anyone needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost
of our power.
It is the character of
a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his
post.
Natural ability
without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
The harvest of old age
is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
The life given us by
nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.
The pursuit, even of
the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
There never was a
great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
Virtue is its own
reward.
Whatever you do, do
with all your might.
 John
Locke quotes:
A sound mind in a sound body,
is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has
these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will
be little the better for anything else.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought
to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
All wealth is the product of labor.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way
invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards
and downwards.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company
and reflection must finish him.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has
a right to, but himself.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed
to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of
men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
I have always thought the actions of men the best
interpreters of their thoughts.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed,
without any other reason but because they are not already common.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and
pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Reading
furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is
thinking that makes what we read ours.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection
or regard of the understanding.
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our
own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to
others.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of
it.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of
their property.
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another
in the current of his discourse.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected
questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according
to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into
them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words
were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things
themselves.
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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