» For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
» All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
» For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
» Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
» We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
» Well begun is half done.
» At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
» A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
» No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
» Most people would rather give than get affection.