Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Excellence in Science is Confessedly Most Pleasant
At least the pursuit of Science is thought to contain Pleasures admirable for purity and permanence
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Pleasure, Good and Happiness
First, because we maintained that Moral Virtue and Moral Vice are both concerned with Pains and Pleasures
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
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