For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
AristotleCharacter gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
AristotleAnd this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle