Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.