All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Love is the cause of unity in all things.

Happiness is a sort of action.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.