Aristotle Quotes
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
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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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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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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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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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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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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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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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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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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .