Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.