Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle · c. 340 BCE

W. D. Ross's translation, 1908. 124 parts, about 112,131 words, 9 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Book I, chapter 1, 1094a · Read it in Book I, Chapter I
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Book I, chapter 7, 1098a · Read it in Book I, Chapter VII
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre-players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing…
Book II, chapter 1, 1103a · Read it in Book II, Chapter I
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Book VIII, chapter 1, 1155a · Read it in Book VIII, Chapter I

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Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by W. D. Ross. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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