Educated people are as different from uneducated people as living people are from the dead.
Education is the best thing to have when you get old.
What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing is living. Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay and growth. Hence we think of plants also as living, for they are observed to possess in themselves an originative power through which they increase or decrease in all spatial directions.
Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
We work to earn our leisure.
A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
You will find peace from pointless thoughts if you act in life as if each action is your last.
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.
