Aristotle
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Aristotle
A friend is a second self.
Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
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.
Aristotle
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle
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.
Aristotle
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.
Aristotle
One
swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly
one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely
happy.
Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle
The
moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against
nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception,
but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle
To perceive is to suffer.
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics'
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.
Evil brings men together.
Aristotle, (attributed)
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics
Wretched,
ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me
to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you
not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to
have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best
thing for you is: to die soon.
Aristotle, Eudemos
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