The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.