Quotes 61 till 80 of 184.
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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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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
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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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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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