We can't learn without pain.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

Either a beast or a god.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.