“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
