We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

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

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.