Aristotle Quotes
-
All proofs rest on premises.
-
When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.
-
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
-
Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
-
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-
A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.
-
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.
-
Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
-
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
-
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
-
As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.
-
Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.
-
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
-
It is of itself that the divine thought thinks, and its thinking is a thinking on thinking. Our characters are the result of our conduct.
-
Law is order, and good law is good order.
-
When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
-
The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
-
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
-
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
-
There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
-
Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.
-
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
-
Men create the gods after their own images.
-
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.