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“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.”

Book II, 1109a.27.
Variant translation: Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
As quoted in The Child: At Home and School (1944) by Edith M. Leonard, Lillian E. Miles, and Catherine S. Van der Kar, p. 203
Nicomachean Ethics

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”

Source: Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics

“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

Source: On Man in the Universe

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

Eudemian Ethics, Book VII, 1238a.20
Eudemian Ethics