Aristotle Quotes
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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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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These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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It is no easy task to be good.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
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A person's life persuades better than his word.
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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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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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
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Evils draw men together.
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Authority is no source for Truth.
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.