O thou who governest the world by everlasting reason.

In every adversity of fortune, the most unhappy kind of misfortune is to have been happy.

If you wish to see the laws of high thunder with a pure and skilful mind, look upon the summits of the highest heaven.

Evil, too, has its place within the scheme of the Good.

-- Plotinus

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza

The good, in a word, is the realization of personality.

-- Kitarō Nishida

There is no envy in the good.

-- Plato

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

-- Socrates

Man cannot naturally will the good except under the aspect of the good.

-- Thomas Aquinas