Quotes from Aristotle

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.