Aristotle Quotes
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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
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Everyone honors the wise.
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A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
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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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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
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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.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
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Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
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All communication must lead to change.
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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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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
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Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
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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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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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Those who act receive the prizes.
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Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.