Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.