I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of human excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
It’s like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn’t make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.
Excellence is not an act, but habit.
The Good of Man comes to be a working of the Soul in the way of Excellence, or, if Excellence admits of degrees, in the way of the best and most perfect Excellence.
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellence, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
