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.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"