Aristotle Quotes
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
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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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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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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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Character is revealed through action.
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For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.
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Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.
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Wickedness is nourished by lust.
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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
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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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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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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.