choice Quotes

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue... ...

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain... ...

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it... ...

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

If we can choose to do something, we can also choose not to do it.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.