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So Virtue Is A Purposive Disposition, Lying In A Mean That Is Relative To Us And Determined By A Rational Principle, And By That Which A Prudent Man Would Use To Determine It. It Is A Mean Between Two Kinds Of Vice, One Of Excess And The Other Of Deficiency.

Excellence Is Not An Art. It Is The Habit Of Practice.

There Is Simple Ignorance, Which Is The Source Of Lighter Offenses, And Double Ignorance, Which Is Accompanied By A Conceit Of Wisdom.

The Roots Of Education Are Bitter, But The Fruit Is Sweet.

No One Chooses What Does Not Rest With Himself, But Only What He Thinks Can Be Attained By His Own Act.