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

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Evils draw men together.

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use