Aristotle Quotes
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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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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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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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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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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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
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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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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
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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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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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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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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
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The hand is the tool of tools.
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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
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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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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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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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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.