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

O thou who governest the world by everlasting reason.

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

The philosopher must be the priest of the god who is over all things.

-- Porphyry

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

-- Socrates

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

-- Plotinus

There is no envy in the good.

-- Plato

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

-- Kitarō Nishida

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza