Aristotle Quotes
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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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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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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
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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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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
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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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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
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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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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.