“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.”
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.