Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 384 Bc Death: 322 Bc
As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; an….
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life..
Friendship is communion..
Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love..
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen..
Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, f….
Between friends there is no need of justice..
We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea..
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ens….
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or v….
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing thes….
Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet..
Quality is not an act, it is a habit..
Love is the cause of unity in all things..
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all thi….
Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue..
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce..
Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath….
Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certa….
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil..
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature..