Aristotle Quotes
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Evils draw men together.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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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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For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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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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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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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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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
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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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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.
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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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The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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A friend is another I.
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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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Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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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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Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
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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.