Quotes from Aristotle

Happiness is a state of activity.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Happiness is activity.

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

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

Happiness is a sort of action.

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

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

There is honor in being a dog.

Everyone honors the wise.

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

Hope is a waking dream.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

Wit is educated insolence.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

The secret to humor is surprise.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.