Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously..

Happiness is the reward of virtue..

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure..

To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers..

Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is noth….

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot b….

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored ….

All proofs rest on premises..

Nature operates in the shortest way possible..

It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'.

Hope is a waking dream..

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is there….

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once a….

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth..

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay..

The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfi….

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity..

Men create the gods after their own images..

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.