ARISTOTLE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS QUOTES ABOUT A GOOD LIFE

“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.”

(Book I, Chapter 1)

“The good is that at which all things aim.”

(Book I, Chapter 1)

“The good is the end of every practical science.”

(Book I, Chapter 1)

“Happiness, then, is something final and self-sufficient, and is the end of action.”

(Book I, Chapter 7)

“The happy life is thought to be virtuous; now a virtuous life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.”

(Book I, Chapter 8)

“Happiness is a certain activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue.”

(Book I, Chapter 13)

“Happiness is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.”

(Book I, Chapter 15)

“Contentment is a kind of wealth, the wealth of self-sufficiency.”

(Book I, Chapter 15)

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

(Book II, Chapter 1)

“Virtue is relative to us and to our actions, and so too is vice.”

(Book II, Chapter 3)

“It is by doing just acts that the just man is produced.”

(Book II, Chapter 4)

“We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, courageous by doing courageous acts.”

(Book II, Chapter 6)

“Virtue is concerned with passions and actions.”

(Book II, Chapter 6)

“The virtues we get by first exercising them, just as we do the arts.” NO ONE REAL IN THIS WORLD QUOTES

(Book II, Chapter 9)

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

(Book II, Chapter 9)

“Action is concerned with passions and must be voluntary.”

(Book III, Chapter 1)

“Men become builders by building and lyre-players by playing the lyre.”

(Book III, Chapter 2)

“The function of man is an activity of soul which follows or implies a rational principle.”

(Book I, Chapter 7)

“The life of the philosopher, therefore, has pleasures peculiar to itself.”

(Book X, Chapter 6)

“The wise man knows how to enjoy the good things of life without becoming their slave.”

(Book X, Chapter 7)

“The true friend is one soul in two bodies.”

(Book VIII, Chapter 3)

“What is honored in a country is cultivated there.”

(Book VIII, Chapter 6)

“It is easy to be thoughtless, it is difficult to be thoughtful.”

(Book X, Chapter 8)

“Excellence is not a matter of chance or luck, but of habit and practice.”

(Book X, Chapter 10)

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

(Book X, Chapter 7)

“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to others.”

(Book III, Chapter 8)