The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

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.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.