Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.