“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”
“No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”
“In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.”
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
“No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.”
“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
“It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.”
“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
“It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.”
“Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
“To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''”
“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
“For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.”
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
“Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.”
“Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.”
“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”
“Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.”
“We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.”
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
“We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.”
“We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.”
“The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.”
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
“If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.”
“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”