Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.

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 is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.