"A man's happiness consists in the free..." - Quote by Aristotle
A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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“Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.”
“A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.”
“A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.”
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“I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.”
“If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”
“To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.”