Aristotle Quotes
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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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Bad men are full of repentance.
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
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Love well, be loved and do something of value.
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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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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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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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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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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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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 involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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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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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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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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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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You are what you do repeatedly.
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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
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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.