The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

You are what you do repeatedly.