Quotes by Aristotle

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another not because he does not feel them but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

God has many names though He is only one Being.

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

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.