Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal..

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old..

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ough….

A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this se….

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many..

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man ….

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection..

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it.

For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common….

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perce….

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth..

We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each….

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally..

What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, wh….

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus..

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it..

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention..

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been dec….

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options..

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the se….

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it..