While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Man by Nature desires to know.

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.