Quotes from Aristotle

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

We are what we repeatedly do.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.

It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

First, have a definite, clear practical idea; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.