Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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.

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.