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

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.