Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.