Aristotle Quotes About Joy

• Happiness is activity.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

• Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Adventure

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

• Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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  Happiness, Expression, Joy

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

• The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

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  Men, Joy, Favors

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

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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1860, Princeton University Press

• Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Laughter, Exercise

• Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Mean, Awards

  Aristotle (1857). “Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek”, p.12

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