It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Well begun is half done.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
He who hath many friends hath none.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Quality is not an act; it is a habit.
Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.