human nature Quotes

Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical... ...

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Everyone honors the wise.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.