For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.