Chris

“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

“Man is essentially a story-telling animal, but a teller of stories that aspire to truth.”
― Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics