for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.