Quotes from Aristotle

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The desire for friendship comes quickly. Friendship does not.

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science, by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase, in the sense of the untraceable. In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. They postula