The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

We can't learn without pain.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.