Happiness depends upon ourselves.
From Aristotle
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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