[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.