Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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