Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.
Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.