Aristotle Quotes
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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 proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
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All communication must lead to change.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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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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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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All learning is derived from things previously known.
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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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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
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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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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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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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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
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Love well, be loved and do something of value.