Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.