Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Anybody can get hit over the head.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Happiness is a sort of action.