"Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them...." - Quote by Aristotle

“No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.”

“The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.”

“But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.”

“Life is nothing without friendship.”

“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.”

“All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.”

“He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.”

“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”

“No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.”