It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.
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A philosopher is someone who deeply contemplates fundamental questions about existence, ethics, knowledge, and the universe, often seeking to understand and interpret the world in profound ways.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.
Just as bats can't see well in bright daylight, our reason struggles to grasp things that are naturally most obvious.
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.