Happiness is the highest good

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

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

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.