Quotes from Aristotle

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.