"Let us be well persuaded that everyone..." - Quote by Aristotle
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
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“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”
“The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.”
“The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.”
More on Happiness
“The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”
“When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.”
“Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog”