All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.