The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
I’ve just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.
The only rule is there are no rules.
I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.
Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
I have no friends and no enemies – only competitors.
Find a priest who understands English and doesn’t look like Rasputin.
I guess the kid had everything but the luck.
Tragedy, then, is a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself, and of some amplitude; in language enriched by a variety of artistic devices appropriate to the several parts of the play; presented in the form of action, not narration; by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
But what matters for questions of virtue and vice is whether your acts are not merely voluntary but also chosen.
Une chose, quand elle n’est pas excessive, est un bien ; du moment qu’elle est plus grande qu’il ne faut, elle devient un mal.
And to the truth of this testimony is borne by what takes place in communities: because the law-givers make the individual members good men by habituation, and this is the intention certainly of every law-giver, and all who do not effect it well fail of their intent; and herein consists the difference between a good Constitution and a bad.
Identity exists where the Complication and Unravelling are the same.