Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.