Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
We are what we continually do.
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues
Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.