Aristotle Quotes
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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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A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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The soul is the form of the body.
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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
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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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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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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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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
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Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
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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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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
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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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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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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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We work to earn our leisure.
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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
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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.