Preserving Happiness for the Social Community is the Just
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – in one way we mean by Just, those things which are apt to produce and preserve happiness and its ingredients for the social community.
Happiness, Working of the Soul in Perfect Excellence
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Moreover, since Happiness is a kind of working of the soul in the way of perfect Excellence, we must inquire concerning Excellence:
Complete Virtue and a Complete Life Constitute Happiness
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – For to constitute Happiness, there must be, as we have said, complete virtue and a complete life
If Anything, Happiness Is a Gift of the Gods – Aristotle
Now to be sure, if anything else is a gift of the Gods to men, it is probable that Happiness is a gift of theirs too, and specially because of all human goods it is the highest – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Happiness – The Chief Good – Aristotle
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Now of the Chief Good (i.e. of Happiness) men seem to form their notions from the different modes of life, as we might naturally expect
Aristotle – Happiness Is Manifestly Something Final and Self-Sufficient
Happiness we assume to be in every way an end and complete. Happiness belongs to the class of things precious and final – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics