[i]t Is Rather The Case That We

The Virtues [moral Excellence] Therefore Are Engendered In Us Neither By Nature Nor Yet In Violation Of Nature; Nature Gives Us The Capacity To Receive Them, And This Capacity Is Brought To Maturity By Habit.

People Never Know Each Other Until They Have Eaten A Certain Amount Of Salt Together.

Every Realm Of Nature Is Marvelous.

It Seems That Ambition Makes Most People Wish To Be Loved Rather Than To Love Others.

For Nature By The Same Cause, Provided It Remain In The Same Condition, Always Produces The Same Effect, So That Either Coming-to-be Or Passing-away Will Always Result.