Aristotle Quotes
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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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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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
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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 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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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
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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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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
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There is honor in being a dog.
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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
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What soon grows old? Gratitude.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
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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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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
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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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That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.