Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act. — 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
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or… — 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
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![“[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ad/aristotle-78_amenable_this-element-the-seat-of-the-appetites-a_1340610.jpg)
