There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

Your happiness depends on you alone.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.