It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.