A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.