Aristotle
Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.Collection: Nicomachean Ethics
The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.Collection: Education
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.Collection: Teacher
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Collection: Truth
It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.Collection: Know How
The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.Collection: Education
It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.Collection: Probability
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.Collection: Writing
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.Collection: War
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.Collection: Inspirational
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.Collection: Enemy
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habitCollection: Long
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.Collection: Philosophical
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.Collection: Inspirational
All learning is derived from things previously known.Collection: Learning
We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.Collection: Differences
Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.Collection: Sweet
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.Collection: Beautiful
Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.Collection: Engagement
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.Collection: Facts
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.Collection: Art
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.Collection: Motivational
Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.Collection: Sports
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.Collection: Words Of Wisdom
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.Collection: Animal
...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.Collection: Simple
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.Collection: Praise
One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.Collection: Fall
Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.Collection: Differences
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.Collection: Vices
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.Collection: Men
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for 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: Mean
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.Collection: True Friend
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.Collection: Equality
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.Collection: Matter
For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or notCollection: Arms
The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)Collection: Reality
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.Collection: Choices
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.Collection: Men
Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.Collection: Eye
There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.Collection: Jobs
It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.Collection: Desire
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.Collection: Government
Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.Collection: War
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.Collection: Math
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.Collection: Ornaments
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.Collection: Government
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.Collection: Dog
Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.Collection: Character