The Energy Or Active Exercise Of The

All Human Happiness And Misery Take The Form Of Action.

Virtue Makes Us Aim At The Right End, And Practical Wisdom Makes Us Take The Right Means.

... The Friendship Of Worthless People Has A Bad Effect (because They Take Part, Unstable As They Are, In Worthless Pursuits, And Actually Become Bad Through Each Other's Influence). But The Friendship Of The Good Is Good, And Increases In Goodness Because Of Their Association. They Seem Even To Become Better Men By Exercising Their Friendship And Improving Each Other; For The Traits That They Admire In Each Other Get Transferred To Themselves.

Obstinate People Can Be Divided Into The Opinionated, The Ignorant, And The Boorish.

All Art Is Concerned With Coming Into Being; For It Is Concerned Neither With Things That Are, Or Come Into Being By Necessity, Nor With Things That Do So In Accordance With Nature.