A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Aristotle
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Aristotle
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
