It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.