Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

Happiness is the highest good

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.