Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence..

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activi….

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

But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, t….

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny..

The end of labor is to gain leisure..

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous..

The soul never thinks without a picture..

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow..

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virt….

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of t….

The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every moveme….

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody..

Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right p….

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god..

They should rule who are able to rule best..

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, ….

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is ….

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral co….

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence..