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

The first principle of all action is leisure.

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.