Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others – Aristotle

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government – Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances – Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal – Aristotle

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end – Aristotle

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 – Aristotle