It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.