A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.

Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.