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Happiness Quotes by Aristotle

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Aristotle says happiness isn’t about simple pastimes but about living virtuously. He describes it as the highest good, a reward that comes from practicing virtue and using the intellect. The quotes stress that true happiness is self‑sufficient and the final aim of all actions.

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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

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Happiness is self-connectedness.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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Happiness is the reward of virtue.

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Happiness is the highest good

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Happiness is activity.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

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Your happiness depends on you alone.

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Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

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“The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness”

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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

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Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

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“Happiness requires both complete goodness and a complete lifetime.”

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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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“If it is better to be happy as a result of one's own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is…

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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of…

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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than…

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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

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The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man.…

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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he…

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Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may…

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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men…

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True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which…

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When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly…

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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to…

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¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and…

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“As far as the name goes, we may almist say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about this; for both…

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Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to…

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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating,…

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Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely…

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It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor…

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Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little…

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Happiness depends on ourselves.

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Happiness is a state of activity.

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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

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