For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

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.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.