For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.
Character is revealed through action.
Nature creates nothing without a purpose.
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.