For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Adventure is worthwhile.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.