The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.