Evil draws men together.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.