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Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly describe...more

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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.

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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken.

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperat...more

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great cri...more

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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