Aristotle Quotes
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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
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The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.
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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
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All proofs rest on premises.
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As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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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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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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Law is order, and good law is good order.
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
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For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.