Happiness depends on ourselves.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.