In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.