There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Excellent things are rare.

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.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.