The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.