The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
AristotleAt his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
AristotleIf every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.
AristotlePleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
Aristotle