Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

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.

A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.