The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

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

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.