There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

Everyone has his besetting sin.

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.