Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.
Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health; but pleasantest is it to win what we love.
Each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of these that he is a competent critic.
The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.
Happiness requires both complete goodness and a complete lifetime.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Education is the best provision for old age.
I know what I don't know.
For nobility is excellence of race.
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
We can't learn without pain.
Mean is the cause.
Man is his desire.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
The quality of life is determined by its activities.
Reason is a light that god has kindled in the soul.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Men acquire a particular quality by acting a particular way.
The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.
Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.