Aristotle Quotes
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Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.
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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
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For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.
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The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
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The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
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Cruel is the strife of brothers.
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The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.
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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.
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Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
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A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.
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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.
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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
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In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain.
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
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Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.
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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.
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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
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Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.