Aristotle Quotes
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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.
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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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Evils draw men together.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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Love well, be loved and do something of value.
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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Adventure is worthwhile.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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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.
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What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
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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.