Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.