Moral virtues we acquire through practice like the arts.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.

Our actions determine our dispositions.

“Before a crowd, the ignorant are more persuasive than the educated.”

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

Music has a power of forming the character and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Happiness is a state of activity.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.