The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

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.

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.