~ First, have a definite, clear practical idea; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. ~

~ Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence ~

~ The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~

~ Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~

~ Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~

~ The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~

~ The mother of revolution and crime is poverty. ~

~ I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~

~ Teaching is the highest form of understanding. ~

~ Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. ~

~ I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~

~ 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. ~

~ What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~

~ The soul never thinks without a mental picture. ~

~ All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ~