That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

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?

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue