It is no easy task to be good.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

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