Aristotle Quotes
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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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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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
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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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One has no friend who has many friends.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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All communication must lead to change.
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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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Authority is no source for Truth.
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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
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It is no easy task to be good.
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
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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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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks, and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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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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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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A promise made must be a promise kept.