Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

The peculiar circumstances arising out of the fall of the Syracusan tyranny seem to have produced the first practitioners of the art of rhetorical.

He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.