But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

To perceive is to suffer.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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