Quotes from Aristotle

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

We work to earn our leisure.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

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

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Our actions determine our dispositions.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"