The law is reason, free from passion – Aristotle

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life – 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

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world – Aristotle

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons – Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit – Aristotle