Quotes from Aristotle

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

Time is not composed of indivisible nows any more than any other magnitude is composed of indivisibles.

Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold.

I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.