Moral Qualities Are So Constituted As To

The True Nature Of Anything Is What It Becomes At Its Highest.

Without Virtue It Is Difficult To Bear Gracefully The Honors Of Fortune.

Men Become Builders By Building And Lyreplayers By Playing The Lyre; So Too We Become Just By Doing Just Acts, Temperate By Doing Temperate Acts, Brave By Doing Brave Acts.

For Just As For A Flute-player, A Sculptor, Or An Artist, And, In General, For All Things That Have A Function Or Activity, The Good And The Well Is Thought To Reside In The Function, So Would It Seem To Be For Man, If He Has A Function.

To Be Conscious That We Are Perceiving Or Thinking Is To Be Conscious Of Our Own Existence.