Aristotle
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.Collection: Action
The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.Collection: Eye
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.Collection: Philosophy
Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.Collection: Should Have
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.Collection: Mean
The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.Collection: Men
Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.Collection: Past
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.Collection: Pain
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.Collection: Character
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.Collection: Men
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.Collection: True Nature
If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.Collection: Numbers
It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.Collection: Education
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.Collection: Anger
For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.Collection: Inspiring
A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.Collection: Teacher
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Collection: Justice
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.Collection: Art
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.Collection: Suicide
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.Collection: Thinking
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.Collection: Spring
Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.Collection: Law
What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.Collection: Knowledge
Education begins at the level of the learner.Collection: Education
What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.Collection: Good Life
I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.Collection: Men
People generally despise where they flatter.Collection: People
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.Collection: People
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.Collection: May
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.Collection: Inspiration
But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.Collection: Sight
Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.Collection: Men
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).Collection: Happiness
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.Collection: Passion
Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."Collection: Goal
But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.Collection: Attitude
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes (for we acknowledge her power): whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.Collection: Blessed
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.Collection: Good Life
You are what you repeatedly doCollection: Fitness Motivational
Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.Collection: Cost
Your happiness depends on you alone.Collection: Depends
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.Collection: Inspirational
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.Collection: Jobs
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.Collection: Inspirational
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.Collection: Numbers
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.Collection: Pleasure
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.Collection: Friendship