Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.