Aristotle Quotes
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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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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
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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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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
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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.
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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
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One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
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We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
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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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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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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
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He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
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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.
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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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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
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Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.
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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.