The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.