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

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.