Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.