A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

Man is by nature a political animal.

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.