Aristotle Quotes
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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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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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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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Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.
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Law is mind without reason.
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Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
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When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
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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 wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.
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Greed has no boundaries.
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Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.
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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.
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A state of the soul is either an emotion, a capacity, or a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
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You should never think without an image.
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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.