The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle Quotations
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Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Hope is a waking dream.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
We make war that we may live in peace.
Education is the best provision for old age.
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
To love someone is to identify with them.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The gods too are fond of a joke
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Evil draws men together.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Law is mind without reason.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
We must as second best...take the least of the evils.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.
One swallow does not make a summer.
To perceive is to suffer.
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Law is order, and good law is good order.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Wit is educated insolence.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
They should rule who are able to rule best.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
All proofs rest on premises.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
We are what we repeatedly do.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.
A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Change in all things is sweet.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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.
A friend is a second self.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Well begun is half done.