Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.