The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.