“The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness”

“What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying. Happiness fits this description…we always choose it for itself, and never for any other reason.”

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”

“For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.”

“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.”

“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.”

“Happiness is a state of activity.”