Aristotle Quotes
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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
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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 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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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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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
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There is honor in being a dog.
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Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
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Fortune favours the bold.
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A man is the origin of his action.
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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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Beauty is the gift of God.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
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Character is revealed through action.
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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.