Life Quotes

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good... ...

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

Those who teach children well deserve more honor than those who simply give birth to them; parents give life, but teachers provide the skill of living well.

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

Education is a valuable asset when things are going well and a safe haven when things are hard.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

Happiness is activity.

Wise people aim to avoid pain, not just to find pleasure.