Aristotle
80 quotations
Most people would rather give than get affection.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
Without friends no one would choose to live.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Education is the best provision for old age.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Cruel is the strife of brothers.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Happiness is activity.