It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

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

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.