Aristotle Quotes
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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