There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Man is by nature a political animal.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.