“It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.”

“PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.”

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

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

“What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying. Happiness fits this description…we always choose it for itself, and never for any other reason.”

“A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.”

“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.”