"The lower animals cannot even apprehend a principle; they obey their instincts. And indeed the use made of slaves and of tame animals is not very different; for both with their bodies minister to the …"

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."

"The law is reason free from passion."