Good habits learned in youth make all the difference later in life.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.
The complete man must work, study and wrestle.
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
