My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside..

Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I ….

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely..

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a large….

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receiv….

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations..

Wit is cultured insolence..

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be ….

Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the….

Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever..

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized b….

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls..

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward..

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of th….

What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of….

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed o….

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin..

Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - n….

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man..

The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor..

But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by bei….