At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.