Teacher

We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs...

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal--a goal, an objective. Second have the necessary means to achieve your ends--wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it... we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

"For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases or preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues...

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended."

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence (aka Areté) then, is not an act, but a habit.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.