Will Durant

Caesar hoped to reform men by changing institutions, and laws; Christ wished to remake institutions, and lesson laws by changing men.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather have these because we have acted rightly; these virtues are formed in man by d...

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit.”.