Aristotle Quotes
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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
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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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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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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 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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Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
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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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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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Beauty is the gift of God.
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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Fortune favours the bold.
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The probable is what usually happens.
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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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All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.
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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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A man is the origin of his action.
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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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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If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
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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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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.