Aristotle Quotes
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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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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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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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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
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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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Your happiness depends on you alone.
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
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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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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.
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Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings.
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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.
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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy.
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We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
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Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.
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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
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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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Wit is cultured insolence.
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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.
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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.