Aristotle Quotes
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
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Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings.
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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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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
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As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.
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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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Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Your happiness depends on you alone.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
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Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.
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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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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.