We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

To love someone is to identify with them.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.