Aristotle Quotes
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Philosophy begins with wonder.
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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
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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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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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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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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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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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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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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
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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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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes 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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...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.