The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Imagination is a sort of faint perception.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Evil draws men together.
It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.