Aristotle Quotes
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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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What soon grows old? Gratitude.
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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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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There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
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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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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
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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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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
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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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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
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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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The probable is what usually happens.
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
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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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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
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Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
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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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A man is the origin of his action.
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If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.