Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.