Aristotle Quotes
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
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Human beings are curious by nature.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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All learning is derived from things previously known.
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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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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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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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You are what you do repeatedly.
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Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!