choice Quotes

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes;... ...

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need... ...

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of... ...

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case... ...

Excellence, then, is about making choices, finding a middle ground, which is determined by reason, as a wise person would decide.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.