To Perceive Is To Suffer.

We Maintain, And Have Said In The Ethics, If The Arguments There Adduced Are Of Any Value, That Happiness Is The Realization And Perfect Exercise Of Virtue, And This Not Conditional, But Absolute. And I Used The Term 'conditional' To Express That Which Is Indispensable, And 'absolute' To Express That Which Is Good In Itself.

How Many A Dispute Could Have Been Deflated Into A Single Paragraph If The Disputants Had Dared To Define Their Terms

A True Friend Is One Soul In Two Bodies.

If The Art Of Ship-building Were In The Wood, Ships Would Exist By Nature.

No One Who Desires To Become Good Will Become Good Unless He Does Good Things.