To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.