Happiness Belongs To The Self Sufficient.

If Then, As We Say, Good Craftsmen Look To The Mean As They Work, And If Virtue, Like Nature, Is More Accurate And Better Than Any Form Of Art, It Will Follow That Virtue Has The Quality Of Hitting The Mean. I Refer To Moral Virtue [not Intellectual], For This Is Concerned With Emotions And Actions, In Which One Can Have Excess Or Deficiency Or A Due Mean.

Remember That Time Slurs Over Everything, Let All Deeds Fade, Blurs All Writings And Kills All Memories. Exempt Are Only Those Which Dig Into The Hearts Of Men By Love.

Obstinate People Can Be Divided Into The Opinionated, The Ignorant, And The Boorish.

Great Is The Good Fortune Of A State In Which The Citizens Have A Moderate And Sufficient Property.

There Is No Great Genius Without A Mixture Of Madness.