The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.'' — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share
