Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.