About Aristotle: Aristotle is in his debt."
Happiness is activity of soul.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
To perceive is to suffer.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have them through envy.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. & It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of...
Happiness is a state of activity.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with v...
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
