It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

Authority is no source for Truth.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.