Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

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