Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

The first principle of all action is leisure.

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man