About Aristotle: Aristotle is in his debt."
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
