Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.

We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

Man by nature wants to know.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.