Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

We work to earn our leisure.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.