Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

We are what we repeatedly do.