Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

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Does not every man love that which he deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of them?people regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust,--about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

First, I must distinguish between that which always is and never becomes and which is apprehended by reason and reflection, and that which always becomes and never is and is conceived by opinion with the help of sense.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the same state to any considerable extent; one or the other will be disregarded.

The wisest have the most authority.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.

It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.