It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle] — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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 Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
