Aristotle Quotes
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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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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
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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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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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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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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
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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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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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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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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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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
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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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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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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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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
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The hand is the tool of tools.
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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?