The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

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 our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

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.