For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

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

In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.