"He who can be, and therefore is,..." - Quote by Aristotle

“To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.”

“All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.”

“Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.”

“Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.”

“The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.”

“The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.”

“The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.”

“Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.”

“Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”