A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

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.