95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
A promise made must be a promise kept.
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
A friend is a second self.
...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.
The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.