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

You are what you repeatedly do

We can't learn without pain.

Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

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

Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.