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

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

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

Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.