Quotes from Aristotle

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. 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.

While both [Plato and truth] are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

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.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

A man married to the right woman will be happy. A man married to the wrong woman will be a philosopher.