My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

What you think is the summit is only a step up

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.