The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.