Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.