Aristotle Quotes
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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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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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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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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
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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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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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One has no friend who has many friends.
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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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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
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It is no easy task to be good.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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All communication must lead to change.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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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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A promise made must be a promise kept.
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Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
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Human beings are curious by nature.
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Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
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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.