Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.