A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
That which is excellent endures.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.