Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In ….

But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do th….

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small sligh….

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state..

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws..

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion..

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who wo….

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's….

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice..

Man by Nature desires to know..

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermed….

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions..

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way..

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; ….

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character..

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . ..

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge..

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class..

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible..

Nature creates nothing without a purpose..