"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
"The ideal person bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace,
making the best of circumstances."
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though they had all other goods."
" Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly,
to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action;
to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds."
"The beauty of the soul shines out when people bear with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because they do not feel them, but because they are people of high and heroic temper."
"Education is the best provision for old age."
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly
to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when
all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied,
and most people live only for the gratification of it."
"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced
that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."
"We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us."
"The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward."
"We become just by performing just actions,
temperate by performing temperate actions,Anybody can become angry--that is easy; but to be angry with the right person,
and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose,
and in the right way--that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
"A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established
for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. . .
Political society exists for the sake of noble actions,
and not of mere companionship.
brave by performing brave actions."
"With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know,
but we must try to have and use it."
"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence."
" I count them braver who overcome their desires
than those who overcome their enemies."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it. "
"Dont compare urself with anyone in this world.If u do so u are insulting urself. "
"Write ur sad times in sand and write ur good times on rocks Dont make promises when u are in joy and dont take any decision when u r sad. You are not responsible for what people think about u but u are responsible for what u make them to think about u."
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life,
the whole aim and end of human existence."
