“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”

“When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master.”

“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.”

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”