A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.