Translated by D. P. Chase · 1911
Book I
Chapter I. Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for w…
41 passages
Book II
Chapter I. Well: human Excellence is of two kinds, Intellectual and Moral:[1] now the Intellectual springs originally, and is increased subsequently, from teac…
28 passages
Book III
Chapter I. Now since Virtue is concerned with the regulation of feelings and actions, and praise and blame arise upon such as are voluntary, while for the invo…
47 passages
Book IV
Chapter I. We will next speak of Liberality. Now this is thought to be the mean state, having for its object-matter Wealth: I mean, the Liberal man is praised …
40 passages
Book V
Chapter I. Now the points for our enquiry in respect of Justice and Injustice are, what kind of actions are their object-matter, and what kind of a mean state …
43 passages
Book VI
Chapter I. Having stated in a former part of this treatise that men should choose the mean instead of either the excess or defect, and that the mean is accordi…
34 passages
Book VII
Chapter I. Next we must take a different point to start from,[1] and observe that of what is to be avoided in respect of moral character there are three forms;…
47 passages
Book VIII
Chapter I. Next would seem properly to follow a dissertation on Friendship: because, in the first place, it is either itself a virtue or connected with virtue;…
41 passages
Book IX
Chapter I. Well, in all the Friendships the parties to which are dissimilar it is the proportionate which equalises and preserves the Friendship, as has been a…
39 passages
Book X
Chapter I. Next, it would seem, follows a discussion respecting Pleasure, for it is thought to be most closely bound up with our kind: and so men train the you…
43 passages
Book XI
[1] For this term, as here employed, our language contains no equivalent expression except an inconvenient paraphrase. There are three senses which it bears in…
13 passages
Book XII
[1] Which we call simply virtue. [2] For nature must of course supply the capacity. [3] Or “as a simple result of nature.” [4] This is done in the Sixth Book…
7 passages
Book XIII
[1] A man is not responsible for being [Greek: theratos], because “particular propensions, from their very nature, must be felt, the objects of them being prese…
8 passages
Book XIV
[1] Each term is important to make up the character of Justice, men must have the capacity, do the acts, and do them from moral choice. [2] But not always. [Gr…
7 passages
Book XV
[1] I understand the illustration to be taken from the process of lowering a weight into its place; a block of marble or stone, for instance, in a building. [2…
16 passages
Book XVI
[1] The account of Virtue and Vice hitherto given represents rather what men _may be_ than what they _are_. In this book we take a practical view of Virtue and …
5 passages
Book XVII
[1] “Owe no man anything, but to _love_ one another for he that loveth another _hath fulfilled the Law_.” Romans XIII. 8. [2] [Greek: kerameis]. The Proverb in…
5 passages