"

Man is by nature a political animal.

"

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

"

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of governmen...more

"

...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all o...more

"

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

"

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

"

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 o...more

"

To perceive is to suffer.

"

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

"

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperat...more

"

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

"

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

"

One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

"

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality a...more