Aristotle Quotes
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
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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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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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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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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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All proofs rest on premises.
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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
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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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Your happiness depends on you alone.
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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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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
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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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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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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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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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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.