We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.