For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.

Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.