Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

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.

As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.