Virtue does not come from wealth, but health, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

Upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, b…

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the g…

Virtue is its own reward.

Of late, men seem to have been possessed by an incomprehensible impulse to strip themselves of everything with which nature has endowed them in order to make t…