If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

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

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.