Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

What we expect, that we find.

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

In justice is all virtues found in sum.

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.