In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

What we expect, that we find.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.