"

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

"

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly describe...more

"

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

"

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

"

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

"

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great cri...more

"

Nor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is not characteristic of a liberal man. But no more w...more

"

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these...more

"

Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as...more

"

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

"

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

"

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

"

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by h...more