The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

That which is excellent endures.

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

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

We must become just be doing just acts.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction