In hard times and other misfortunes, true friends are a safe place. They keep young people out of trouble, comfort and help the old in their weakness, and encourage those in their prime to do good deeds.
Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
The quality of life is determined by its activities.
Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
The mind's energy is what makes life meaningful.
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
