Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

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.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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