We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.