The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action