The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
Someone who wants to be a good ruler must first have learned to be ruled.
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
Education is a valuable asset when things are going well and a safe haven when things are hard.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
Wise people aim to avoid pain, not just to find pleasure.
