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

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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

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Nor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is not characteristic of a liberal man. But no more w...more

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It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these...more

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A man without regrets cannot be cured.

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Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as...more

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One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

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Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

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Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by h...more

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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

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

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...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all o...more

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.