So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

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

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.