Aristotle Quotes
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When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
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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.
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Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
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Greed has no boundaries.
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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
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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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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
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A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
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What we expect, that we find.
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The complete man must work, study and wrestle.
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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
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A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
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And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
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The soul is the form of the body.
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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy.
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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.