We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.

No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.