Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.