Aristotle Quotes
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The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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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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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
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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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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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The soul of man may be divided into two parts; that which has reason in itself, and that which hath not, but is capable of obeying its dictates.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
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Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.
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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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The hand is the tool of tools.
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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.