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
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
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