If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Law is mind without reason.

Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

Change in all things is sweet.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.