Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.