It is clear that some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Happiness is the highest good
For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
The true value of life comes from being aware and thinking deeply, not just surviving.
Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.
We work to earn our leisure.
You will find peace from pointless thoughts if you act in life as if each action is your last.
