We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .