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.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.