We must become just be doing just acts.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Through discipline comes freedom.

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.