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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
We make war that we may live in peace.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.