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

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

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