Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Through discipline comes freedom.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.