Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.