To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

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

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.