Aristotle
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.Collection: Jealousy
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.Collection: Best
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.Collection: Men
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.Collection: Men
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.Collection: Hope
Well begun is half done.Collection: Brainy
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.Collection: Science
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.Collection: Teen
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.Collection: Power
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.Collection: Motivational
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.Collection: Education
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.Collection: Art
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Collection: Truth
The end of labor is to gain leisure.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Happiness
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.Collection: Great
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.Collection: Intelligence
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.Collection: Poetry
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.Collection: Knowledge
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.Collection: Wisdom
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.Collection: Friendship
Friendship is essentially a partnership.Collection: Friendship
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.Collection: Good
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.Collection: Truth
All men by nature desire knowledge.Collection: Men
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.Collection: History
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 government to the utmost.Collection: Equality
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.Collection: Thankful
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Nature
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.Collection: Fear
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.Collection: Brainy
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Collection: Happiness
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Collection: Work
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.Collection: Power
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.Collection: Power
Bad men are full of repentance.Collection: Men
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Religion
We make war that we may live in peace.Collection: Peace
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Society
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.Collection: Men
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.Collection: Time
Education is the best provision for old age.Collection: Best
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.Collection: Death
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.Collection: Art
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.Collection: Art
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.Collection: Fear
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.Collection: Beauty