Aristotle Quotes
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Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.
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A friend is another I.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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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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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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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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It is impossible that each of the elements should be infinite. For that is body which has interval on all sides; and that is infinite which has extension without bound.
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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.
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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.
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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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A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.