Quotes from Aristotle

Happiness is activity.

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 seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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

Hope is a waking dream.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

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

Happiness is the highest good

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.