Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
We work to earn our leisure.
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.