Aristotle Quotes
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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You are what you do repeatedly.
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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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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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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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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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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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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.
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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
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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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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 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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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
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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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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
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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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What soon grows old? Gratitude.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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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.