True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

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?

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

He who hath many friends hath none.