Our Actions Determine Our Dispositions.

The Good Citizen Need Not Of Necessity Possess The Virtue Which Makes A Good Man.

Friends Are Much Better Tried In Bad Fortune Than In Good.

Bravery Is A Mean State Concerned With Things That Inspire Confidence And With Things Fearful ... And Leading Us To Choose Danger And To Face It, Either Because To Do So Is Noble, Or Because Not To Do So Is Base. But To Court Death As An Escape From Poverty, Or From Love, Or From Some Grievous Pain, Is No Proof Of Bravery, But Rather Of Cowardice.

Anyone Who Has No Need Of Anybody But Himself Is Either A Beast Or A God.

Quite Often Good Things Have Hurtful Consequences. There Are Instances Of Men Who Have Been Ruined By Their Money Or Killed By Their Courage.