Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
Education begins at the level of the learner.
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.