The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.