Aristotle Quotes
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
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Nothing is what rocks dream about.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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Education begins at the level of the learner.
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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 business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.
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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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We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Error is multiform, whereas success is possible in one way only; so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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All things are full of gods.
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The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
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One has no friend who has many friends.
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We work to earn our leisure.
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It is no easy task to be good.
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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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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.