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

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.

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

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, s….

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

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….

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do..

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man..

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized..

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable..

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods..

We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect..

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness)..

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have….

Perception starts with the eye..

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize..

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able ….

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold..

Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ….

All men are alike when asleep..

We are what we repeatedly do..