Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.