The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.