To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

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

We must as second best…take the least of the evils.

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.