Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.
Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
We fight wars so that we can live in peace.
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Art aims to show the inner meaning of things, not just how they look on the outside.
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
