People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

The probable is what usually happens.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .