Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.