values Quotes

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

The greatest good qualities are those that help others the most.

A wise person doesn't put themselves in unnecessary danger, as there are few things they care deeply enough about; but in big crises, they are willing to give their life, knowing that sometimes life isn't worth living under certain conditions.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and... ...