“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”

“...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”

“A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

“Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.”