There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

Fortune favours the bold.

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.