Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

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

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Art takes nature as its model.

One has no friend who has many friends.