character Quotes

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

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

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds... ...

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

My best friend is someone who truly wishes me well for my own sake.

... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in... ...