Aristotle Quotes

Nothing ages as quickly as the memory of a favor.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Those who educate children well deserve more honors than their own parents, because the former only gave them life, the latter taught them the art of living well.

If human actions can be noble, shameful, or indifferent, the same applies to the corresponding pleasures. There are pleasures that stem from noble activities, and others from shameful origins.

Intelligence consists not only in knowledge but also in the skill of applying knowledge in practice.

It is important for anyone wishing to achieve certainty in their research to know how to doubt in time.

It is ignorance to not know how to distinguish between what requires proof and what does not.

Time is the measure of motion between two moments.

A miser is someone who does not spend on what they should, nor what they should, nor when they should.

The only truth is reality.

In reality, to live as a man means to choose a target - honor, glory, wealth, culture - and aim for it with all of one's conduct, for not ordering life towards a purpose is a sign of great foolishness.

We must not pay attention to those who advise us, under the pretext that we are human, to only think about human things, and under the pretext that we are mortal, to renounce immortal things.