92 definitions
Civilization (n.) shows itself not in tilled fields but in geometric figures traced in the sand: the shipwrecked philosopher saw them and told his companions to take heart, for there were men here.
A Commonwealth (n.) is a constitution of the entire people.
Definition (n.) must come first: no one can understand what a thing is like until he understands exactly what it is.
Friends (n.) get less care than anything: every one can tell exactly how many goats or sheep he has, but not how many friends.
Friendship (n.) that remains unimpaired to the end of life is the most difficult thing in the world.
Friendship (n.) is overhung by so many fatalities that it takes not only wisdom but good luck to escape them all.
Friendship (n.) has no more opposite maxim than this: love your friend with the consciousness that you may one day hate him.
Friendship (n.) formed in boyhood, however warm, is often laid aside with the boyish toga.
Glory (n.) shrinks to nothing for anyone who has seen how small the earth is, and how tiny the corner of it that men inhabit.
Greed (n.) is the most fatal blow to friendship in most men; in the best men it is rivalry for office and reputation.
Loneliness (n.) is truer in a crowd where no one speaks your mind than alone with the writings of the wise.
Old age (n.) is to most old men so hateful that they declare themselves under a weight heavier than Aetna.
People (n.) is not every association of men, however congregated, but the association of the entire number, bound together by the compact of justice, and the communication of utility.