Aristotle Quotes
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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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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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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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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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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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You are what you do repeatedly.
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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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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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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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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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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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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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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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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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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.