Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics Quotes

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

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

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

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

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

A man without regrets cannot be cured.

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.