All virtue is summed up in dealing justly..

If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then….

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to the….

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency..

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence..

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions mus….

Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together.".

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established..

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice ….

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them..

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as t….

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others..

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must co….

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune..

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer….

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the ….

The soul is the form of the body.

Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high sta….

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself..

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects..