Aristotle Quotes
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Your happiness depends on you alone.
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For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
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We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
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Perception starts with the eye.
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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
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For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.
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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
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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.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
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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.
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The complete man must work, study and wrestle.
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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.