Character Quote by George Mason

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

— Aristotle

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

— Aristotle

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

— Thomas Aquinas

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

— Aristotle

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

— Walter Lippmann

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on…

— Aristotle

“For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Happiness and success are not something that we can attain or possibly loose, but rather inside qualities that we have forgotten about during the…

— G.Gyarmati

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

— Aristotle

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

— Thomas Jefferson