Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue