Quotes from Aristotle

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

All men desire by nature to know.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

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.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

You are what you repeatedly do