Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Character is revealed through action.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]