A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

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

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.