No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

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

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.