The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Wit is educated insolence.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.