Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?