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 describe...
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...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all o...
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperat...
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Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
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One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by h...
