Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

It is no easy task to be good.

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.