Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

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

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.