Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

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.

It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.