Aristotle Quotes
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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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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
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The probable is what usually happens.
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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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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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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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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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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Fortune favours the bold.
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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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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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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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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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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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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
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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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Wickedness is nourished by lust.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Beauty is the gift of God.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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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.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.