perfection Quotes

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence... ...

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

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the... ...

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.