Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
There is something in the nature of things which the mind of man, which reason, which human power cannot effect, and certainly that which produces this must be better than man. What can this be but God.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers
Philosophy is the cultivation of the mental faculties it roots out vices and prepares the mind to receive proper seed.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
... for until that God who rules all the region of the sky ... has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed....
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Each man's mind is the man himself.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.
All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.
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