Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal ….

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end..

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things..

Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, f….

Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasm….

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sen….

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or v….

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea..

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil..

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virt….

Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certai….

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue..

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature..

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen..

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all thi….

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ens….

No science ever defends its first principles..

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; an….

Between friends there is no need of justice..

Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certa….

Quality is not an act, it is a habit..