Whether We Will Philosophize Or We Won't

It Is Our Actions And The Soul's Active Exercise Of Its Functions That We Posit (as Being Happiness).

Irrational Passions Would Seem To Be As Much A Part Of Human Nature As Is Reason.

Nature Of Man Is Not What He Was Born As, But What He Is Born For.

It Is Well Said, Then, That It Is By Doing Just Acts That The Just Man Is Produced, And By Doing Temperate Acts The Temperate Man; Without Doing These No One Would Have Even A Prospect Of Becoming Good. But Most People Do Not Do These, But Take Refuge In Theory And Think They Are Being Philosophers And Will Become Good In This Way, Behaving Somewhat Like Patients Who Listen Attentively To Their Doctors, But Do None Of The Things They Are Ordered To Do.

We, On The Other Hand, Must Take For Granted That The Things That Exist By Nature Are, Either All Or Some Of Them, In Motion.