Aristotle Quotes
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Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
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We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.
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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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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
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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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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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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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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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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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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
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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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All communication must lead to change.
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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.
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What soon grows old? Gratitude.
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.