Aristotle Quotes
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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
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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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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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When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
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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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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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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
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Greed has no boundaries.
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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.
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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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Perception starts with the eye.
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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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What we expect, that we find.
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The complete man must work, study and wrestle.
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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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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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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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One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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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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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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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.