"It is the active exercise of our..." - Quote by Aristotle

“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”

“It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.”

“It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.”

“If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.”

“To fill the hour──that is happiness.”

“He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.”

“There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.”

“If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?”

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”