Aristotle Quotes
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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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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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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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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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
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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.
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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
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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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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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...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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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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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
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Your happiness depends on you alone.
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Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
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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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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.