Quotes About Fulfillment

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Il culmine del piacere è la pura e semplice distruzione del dolore.

De los bienes que la sabiduría ofrece para la felicidad de la vida entera, el mayor con mucho es la adquisición de la amistad

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, for the greatest is the possession of friendship.

It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth.

We must exercise ourselves in thte things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have was once among the things you only hoped for.

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.