No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Happiness is a good flow of life.

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.