Aristotle Quotes
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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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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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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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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
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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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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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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
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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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He who hath many friends hath none.
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God has many names, though He is only one Being.
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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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.. 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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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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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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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy.
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
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If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
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It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.
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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.