Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

All men are alike when asleep.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.