For this cause also children cannot be happy, for they are not old enough to be capable of noble acts; when children are spoken of as happy, it is in compliment to their promise for the future.
the Nicomachean Ethicsby aristotle
Happiness requires both complete goodness and a complete lifetime.
Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.
What affirmation and denial are in the case of thinking, pursuit and avoidance are in the case of longing for something.
Each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of these that he is a competent critic.
Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right?
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
Lawgivers make the citizens food by training them in habits of right action – this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure.
action / failure / habits / Lawgivers / legislation
To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously.
amusement / Anacharsis / relaxation / work
In everything continuous and divisible, it is possible to grasp the more, the less, and the equal, and these either in reference to the thing itself, or in relation to us.