Aristotle Quotes
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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.
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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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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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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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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.
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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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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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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
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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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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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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
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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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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
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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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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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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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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 give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.