Nicomachean Ethics Quotations

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

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.