Aristotle Quotes

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

Peace is more difficult than war.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

A man is the origin of his action.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

The soul is the form of the body

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Happiness is a sort of action.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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.