Aristotle Quotes
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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Adventure is worthwhile.
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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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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.
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The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education.
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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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You are what you do repeatedly.
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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
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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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All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.
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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each inanimate instrument could do its own work.
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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.