When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

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.