The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

A friend is a second self.

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.