Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.