A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Your happiness depends on you alone.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.