Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.