Aristotle Quotes
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Greed has no boundaries.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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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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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
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Law is mind without reason.
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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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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
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Perception starts with the eye.
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Education begins at the level of the learner.
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Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.
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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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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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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
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One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
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God has many names, though He is only one Being.
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The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.
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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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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
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Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.