Aristotle Quotes

Try it again, " I said. "Kiss me.""No, " he said."Kis

I wished it was raining, " he said."I don't need the rain, " I said. "I need you.

A man without regrets cannot be cured.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

Human beings are by nature political animals

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

You're fighting this war in the worst way possible." "I don't know how to fight it, Dad.""You should ask for help, " he said."I don't know how to do that, either.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.- Aristotle (Attributed by Seneca in Moral Essays, "De Tranquillitate Animi" On Tranquility of Mind, sct. 17, subsct. 10.)

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.

You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.

There are worst things in life than kissing boys.

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending.

Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

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

I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

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.

Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.

Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge.

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

God has many names though He is only one Being.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

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.

All men by nature desire to know.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.

The physician heals Nature makes well.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken.

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.

Man is by nature a civic animal.

We become just by performing just actions temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.

Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.

Revolutions are not about trifles but spring from trifles.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life.

What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Shame is an ornament to the young a disgrace to the old.