At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle’s opinion… that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors… prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to...

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. &It is also in the interests of a tyrant...

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor...

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated...

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

To perceive is to suffer.

Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these;...

And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat; and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance...

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor...

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or...

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man...

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Yes the truth is that men’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

…happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves…. The...

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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

It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor....

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

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.