Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.