Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.