Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

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

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.