Quotes 161 till 180 of 184.
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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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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
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To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
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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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