Aristotle Quotes
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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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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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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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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There is honor in being a dog.
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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
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All learning is derived from things previously known.
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You can never learn anything that you did not already know.
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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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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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Everyone honors the wise.
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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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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit as being Happiness.
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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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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.
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That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.