Aristotle Quotes
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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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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 man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
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Fortune favours the bold.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.
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Character is revealed through action.
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The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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Wickedness is nourished by lust.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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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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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.