# Theognis — Nicomachean Ethics character guide

> Theognis in Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0003-book-i

## Who they are

Poet quoted on virtue and friendship.

## In the story

### [Book IX: Friendship, Self-Love, and the Happy Life](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/book-ix)

Quoted as saying that living with good men provides practice in virtue.

### [Friendship or Love—Continued](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/friendship-or-love-continued)

Quoted as a source supporting the idea that living with good men provides practice in virtue.

### [Chapter IX: The Happy Man and the Need for Friends](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/ix)

Quoted as saying that living with good men provides practice in virtue.

### [The Need for Law and Habit in Moral Education](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/ix)

Quoted by Aristotle regarding the rewards that theories would deserve if they could make men good.

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