Aristotle Quotes, Character Quotes, Men Quotes

In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Children Quotes , Men Quotes

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Class Quotes , Perfect Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Travel Quotes

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Daily Tasks Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

Through discipline comes freedom.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Mean Quotes , Two Quotes

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Government Quotes , Democracy Quotes

Love well, be loved and do something of value.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Wells Quotes

Happiness depends on ourselves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Love You Quotes

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Climbing Quotes , Insanity Quotes

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Love Quotes , Life Quotes

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Envy Quotes , Way Quotes

Man by Nature desires to know.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Men Quotes , Desire Quotes

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Education Quotes , Men Quotes

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Selfishness Quotes , Degrees Quotes

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Life Quotes , Success Quotes

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Art Quotes , Mean Quotes