To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.