To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

Fortune favours the bold.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.