Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

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

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.