The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

It is no easy task to be good.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.