More From Aristotle
- "All men by nature desire knowledge."
- "Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."
- "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."
More In Good
- "A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."― Niccolo Machiavelli
- "I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."― Edna St. Vincent Millay
- "Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."― Blaise Pascal