The function of man is to live a certain kind of life, and this is to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle.Aristotle
Happiness, then, is something final and self-sufficing, and is the end of all that man does.Aristotle
He who aspires to be a man of good character must first become wise.Aristotle
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.Aristotle
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.Aristotle
Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit.Aristotle
We become just by doing just acts, tempered by doing tempered acts, brave by doing brave acts.Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.Aristotle
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones. Aristotle
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.Aristotle