Many friends are the key to happiness

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.