Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.