... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

Those who act receive the prizes.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

Your happiness depends on you alone.

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.