Aristotle Quotes
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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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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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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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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It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.
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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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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
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The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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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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Love well, be loved and do something of value.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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We work to earn our leisure.
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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Art takes nature as its model.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.