That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Your happiness depends on you alone.