The soul never thinks without a picture.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.