Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
God has many names, though He is only one Being.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence
Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
All men by nature desire to know.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.
Man is by nature a civic animal.
We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.
To perceive is to suffer.
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.