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.

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.