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).

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.