Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

What you think is the summit is only a step up

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

The miserable are sacred.

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.