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.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Authority is no source for Truth.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

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.

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.