It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.