Aristotle Quotes
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
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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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The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
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We work to earn our leisure.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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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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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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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.
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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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It is no easy task to be good.
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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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Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
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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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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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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
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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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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.