Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it..

When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves..

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in..

Education is the best provision for old age..

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing..

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all..

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances..

Happiness is activity..

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet no….

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. ….

Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a s….

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal ..

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own..

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary..

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends..

Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body..

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary ….

The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from k….

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies..