Quotes from Aristotle

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

Change in all things is sweet.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.