Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.