Aristotle Quotes
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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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A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
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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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All learning is derived from things previously known.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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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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All communication must lead to change.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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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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Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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Love well, be loved and do something of value.
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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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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.