Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.