Aristotle Quotes
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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
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Every realm of nature is marvelous.
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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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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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
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The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
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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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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
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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 good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
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If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.
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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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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.