Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.
You are what you do repeatedly.
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.