Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.