Happiness depends on ourselves.

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

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.