People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

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

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

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.