Aristotle Quotes
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.
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Philosophy begins with wonder.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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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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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes 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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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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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
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We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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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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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
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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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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.