What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.