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

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.