No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.
Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.