Perfect friendship exists between good people who are alike in their excellent qualities; they wish each other well because they are good, and they are good in themselves.
Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.
Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
You won't achieve anything important without courage. It's the best quality of the mind, after honesty.
