It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

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

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.