Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.