People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.