Aristotle Quotes
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Philosophy begins with wonder.
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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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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
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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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Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.
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The intention makes the crime.
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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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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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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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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
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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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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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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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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.