Aristotle Quotes
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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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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.
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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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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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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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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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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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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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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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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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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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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
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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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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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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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Every realm of nature is marvelous.
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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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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
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To love someone is to identify with them.