“ Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ”

“ Change in all things is sweet. ”

“ You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ”

“ Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ”

“ Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. ”

“ We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. ”

“ We make war that we may live in peace. ”

“ Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. ”

“ Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ”

“ Happiness depends upon ourselves. ”