Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.