Aristotle Quotes
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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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Education is the best provision for old age.
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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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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
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There is honor in being a dog.
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.
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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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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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That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.
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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
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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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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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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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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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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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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
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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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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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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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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.