Our first presupposition must be that in nature nothing acts on, or is acted on by, any other thing at random, nor may anything come from anything else, unless we mean that it does so in virtue of a concomitant attribute.

The peculiar circumstances arising out of the fall of the Syracusan tyranny seem to have produced the first practitioners of the art of rhetorical.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

Again, Practical Wisdom and Excellence of the Moral character are very closely united; since the Principles of Practical Wisdom are in accordance with the Moral Virtues and these are right when they accord with Practical Wisdom.