The intention makes the crime.

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.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

Happiness is activity.

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.