The quality of life is determined by its activities.
In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.