Aristotle Quotes
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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 unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
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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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Art takes nature as its model.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
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We work to earn our leisure.
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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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Love well, be loved and do something of value.
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One has no friend who has many friends.
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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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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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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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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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.