# Quote — Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

> .... In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

- Author: [Aristotle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle.md)
- Book: [Nicomachean Ethics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics.md)
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## More from this book

> For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.... Now for most men their pleasures are in conflict with one another because these are not by nature pleasant, but the lovers of what is noble find pleasant the things that are by nature pleasant; and virtuous actions are such... Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos: Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health; but pleasantest is it to win what we love.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/for-pleasure-is-a-state.md)

> Any one can get angry — that is easy — or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.

p. 203 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/any-one-can.md)

> Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/without-friends-no-one.md)