A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues
The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.