Aristotle Quotes
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
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A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
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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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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
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The intention makes the crime.
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.
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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 quality of life is determined by its activities.
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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
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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 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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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
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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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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.