Aristotle Quotes
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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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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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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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If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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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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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 appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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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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You are what you do repeatedly.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
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Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
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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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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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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!