The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.