That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities.

Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?