Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.