They who are to be judges must also be performers.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .