All human beings by nature desire to know.

The beginning is half of the whole.

One swallow does not make a spring.

Virtue lies in the middle.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

-- Marcus Aurelius

It is the quality of your life that matters, not its length.

-- Seneca

The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.

-- Chrysippus of Soli

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

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

-- John Stuart Mill