Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.