happiness Quotes

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Happiness depends on ourselves.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Love well, be loved and do something of value.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical... ...

The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors,... ...