Quotes from Aristotle

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

A man is the origin of his action.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.