Aristotle Quotes
-
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
-
Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
-
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
-
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
-
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
-
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
-
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.
-
It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
-
What soon grows old? Gratitude.
-
Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.
-
That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.
-
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
-
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.
-
Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
-
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
-
We make war that we may live in peace.
-
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.