All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

You are what you repeatedly do

When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.