If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom