Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

You may be more happy than Princes, if you will be more virtuous.

We distill happiness from garnering joy in the ordinary fragments of life, while dedicating personal effort to creating a body of work that one can look back on their deathbed and be satisfied with achieving. Happiness comes from living beautifully, which necessarily involves reason in thought and speech (logos), and leading an ethical and virtuous life devoted to achieving worthy goals.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.