The Aim Of Art Is To Represent

Virtue Makes Us Aim At The Right End, And Practical Wisdom Makes Us Take The Right Means.

The Energy Or Active Exercise Of The Mind Constitutes Life.

...for All Men Do Their Acts With A View To Achieving Something Which Is, In Their View, A Good.

There Are, Then, Three States Of Mind ... Two Vices--that Of Excess, And That Of Defect; And One Virtue--the Mean; And All These Are In A Certain Sense Opposed To One Another; For The Extremes Are Not Only Opposed To The Mean, But Also To One Another; And The Mean Is Opposed To The Extremes.

Men Pay Most Attention To What Is Their Own: They Care Less For What Is Common; Or, At Any Rate, They Care For It Only To The Extent To Which Each Is Individually Concerned.