Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
They who are to be judges must also be performers.
Law is mind without reason.
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.
Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life
Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
Man by Nature desires to know.
The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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