Aristotle Quotes
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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 energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Philosophy begins with wonder.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
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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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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
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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.
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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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Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
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Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings.
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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
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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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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.