Aristotle Quotes
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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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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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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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Authority is no source for Truth.
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
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Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
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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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Those who act receive the prizes.
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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
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Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.
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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
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A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
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Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .