Aristotle
Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodnessCollection: Happiness
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.Collection: Character
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.Collection: Faith
Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.Collection: Kindness
It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.Collection: Ambition
If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.Collection: Character
It is likely that unlikely things should happenCollection: Unlikely
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.Collection: True Friend
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.Collection: Justice
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Collection: Inspirational
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.Collection: People
It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.Collection: Lying
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.Collection: Single
The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.Collection: Spring
Beauty is a gift of God.Collection: Beauty
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.Collection: Nature
A gentleman is not disturbed by anythingCollection: Gentleman
Wit is well-bred insolence.Collection: Insolence
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.Collection: Motivation
We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.Collection: Laughing
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.Collection: People
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.Collection: Excellence
All men are alike when asleep.Collection: Men
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.Collection: Truth
He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.Collection: Nature
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.Collection: Teacher
A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.Collection: Mean
A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.Collection: Men
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.Collection: Men
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.Collection: Attachment
The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for manCollection: Funny Relationship
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.Collection: Bars
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.Collection: Ends
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.Collection: Should Have
We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.Collection: Definitions
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.Collection: Intelligent
I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.Collection: Knows
A human being is a naturally political [animal].Collection: Animal
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.Collection: Passion
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.Collection: Witty
Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."Collection: Men
Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.Collection: People
Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.Collection: Education
Most people would rather give than get affection.Collection: People
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.Collection: Equality
Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.Collection: Success
For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .Collection: Lying
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.Collection: Art
One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.Collection: Spring