Aristotle

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

Aristotle

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Aristotle

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.

Aristotle

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

Aristotle

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

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Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim.

Aristotle

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

Aristotle

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Aristotle

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Aristotle