Aristotle Quotes
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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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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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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
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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.
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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.
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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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He who hath many friends hath none.
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We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
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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.
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God has many names, though He is only one Being.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy.
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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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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
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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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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.