Aristotle Quotes
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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
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The soul never thinks without a picture.
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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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Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.
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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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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.
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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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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
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The soul is the form of the body.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
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We work to earn our leisure.
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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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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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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
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Education begins at the level of the learner.
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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
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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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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.