Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.