 | He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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| | In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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| | Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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| | Character is habitual action.
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| | To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
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| | We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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| | We must add in a complete life. One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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| | We must as second best...take the least of the evils.
With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
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| | Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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| | When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
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| | Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
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| | For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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| | Justice and equity are therefore the same thing, and both are good, though equity is the better.
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| | A friend is a second self.
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| | A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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| | All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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| | All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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| | Bad men are full of repentance.
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| | Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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| | Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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| | Change in all things is sweet.
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| | Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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| | Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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| | Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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| | Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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| | Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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| | Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
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| | Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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| | For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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| | The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
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