In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.