Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

Happiness is a state of activity.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.