Aristotle Quotes
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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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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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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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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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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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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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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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 only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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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 true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
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The hand is the tool of tools.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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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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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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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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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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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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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.