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.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.