“Happiness is not a state. For if it were, someone might have it and yet be asleep for his whole life, living the life of a plan or suffer the greatest misfortunes. We count happiness as an activity rather than a state.”
More from Aristotle
“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so…”
“Character is determined by choice, not opinion.”
“We cannot learn without pain.”
“What prompts us to action is desire; and desire has three forms—appetite, passion, wish.”