Aristotle Quotes
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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.