Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.