Aristotle Quotes
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
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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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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
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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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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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All learning is derived from things previously known.
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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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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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You can never learn anything that you did not already know.
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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 physician heals, Nature makes well.
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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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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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Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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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.