If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.