Happiness is the reward of virtue.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.