Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
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.
We become just by performing just actions temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.
The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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....
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours but in deserving them.
Even subjects that are known are known only to a few
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
He who hath many friends hath none.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gol...