To care less for the truth 

than for what people think 

is a coward's part.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Happiness is the highest good.

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, 

and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, 

which is contemplative.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, 

since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, 

whereas those of history are singulars.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

In all things of nature 

there is something of the marvellous.

The ultimate value of life 

depends upon awareness 

and the power of contemplation 

rather than upon mere survival.

The roots of education are bitter, 

but the fruit is sweet.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; 

for poetry expresses the universal, 

and history only the particular.

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.

The aim of art is to represent 

not the outward appearance of things, 

but their inward significance.

It is the mark of an educated mind 

to be able to entertain a thought 

without accepting it.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, 

the whole aim and end of human existence.

We are what we repeatedly do. 

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

It is not once nor twice but times without number 

that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.