Quotes from Aristotle

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Man by nature wants to know.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

Peace is more difficult than war.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.