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What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.
Aristotle
It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.
Aristotle
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
Aristotle
Everyone honors the wise.
Aristotle
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
Aristotle
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.
Aristotle
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
Aristotle
Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.
Aristotle
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
Aristotle
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny of aristocracy, oligarchy of constitutional government, democracy.
Aristotle
Imagination is a sort of faint perception.
Aristotle
The greatest victory is over self.
Aristotle
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Aristotle
To know what virtue is is not enough we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
Aristotle
A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
Aristotle
The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
Aristotle
No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
