I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.