Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.