Quotes by Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Hope is a waking dream.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
