Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions

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

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea

Change in all things is sweet

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful. for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once