Aristotle Quotes
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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The hand is the tool of tools.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.
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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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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
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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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One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
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Every realm of nature is marvelous.
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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
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To love someone is to identify with them.