Aristotle Quotes
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Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
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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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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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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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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 first principle of all action is leisure.
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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
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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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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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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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A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
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It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.
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The soul never thinks without a picture.
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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.For one swallow does not makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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The soul is the form of the body.
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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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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.