A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.