Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.