There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail — Aristotle Copy Share Image
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.” — 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
Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something” — 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
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of… — 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
