When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

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 happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.