“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
– Aristotle
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle
“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
– Aristotle
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
– Aristotle
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
– Aristotle
“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”
– Aristotle
“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
– Aristotle
“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
– Aristotle
“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”
– Aristotle
“Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.”
– Aristotle
“We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.”
– Aristotle
“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”
– Aristotle
“But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.”
– Aristotle
“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
– Aristotle
“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
– Aristotle
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
– Aristotle
“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”
– Aristotle
“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”
– Aristotle
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”
– Aristotle
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
– Aristotle
“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.”
– Aristotle
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”
– Aristotle
“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
– Aristotle
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
– Aristotle
“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
– Aristotle
“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
– Aristotle
“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”
– Aristotle
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”
– Aristotle
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
– Aristotle
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
– Aristotle