Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Either a beast or a god.

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.