Aristotle Quotes
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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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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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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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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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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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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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Adventure is worthwhile.
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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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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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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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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!
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
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You are what you do repeatedly.