The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

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

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

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

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

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 constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

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.