happiness Quotes

We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to... ...

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day,... ...

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety... ...

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.