To be endowed with virtues is not to know little or much.
Both poverty and wealth are a violation of propriety.
Beware of immodesty both in striving for glory and in rejecting it.
He who goes forward with the sciences, but lags behind in morals, is giving more back than he is going forward.
He who manifests himself in the pursuits of the intellect and gives due honor to the intellect is, it seems, placed in the most advantageous and pleasing aspect to the gods than all others.
Someone once brought to Aristotle's notice that someone was reviling him in his absence. The philosopher reacted mildly: "If not, let him kill me."
Ambitious people are more envious than all unambitious people.
Metaphor is a wonderful sign of genius, for the ability to create a good metaphor is the ability to discover similarity.
Can he be called happy whose inheritance is contemptible?
We deprive ourselves of free time in order to have free time, and we start war in order to live in peace.
It is good for us sometimes, but always for God.
The beginning is, to all appearances, more than half of the whole work.
You need fear neither poverty, nor sickness, and, in general, anything that does not arise from vice and does not depend on the man himself.
Multiple rule is not good: let only one be in power.
It is not the goal that is the object of the decision, but the means of achieving the goal.
One day, Aristotle was reproached for giving alms to a man of bad conduct, to which the scholar replied: "I do not give to the conduct, but to the man."
Serious things are destroyed by laughter, and laughter by seriousness.
Modesty is the middle ground between shamelessness and shyness.
It is impossible to act in public life without being endowed with certain ethical qualities, namely without being a thoughtful man.
Conscience is the righteous judgment of the good man.
Doubting is not useless. Doubting, we come to research; researching we arrive at the truth.
Righteousness is the acquisition of a quality of soul by virtue of which men become capable of righteous deeds and actions and the pursuit of justice.
Happy are the stones placed at the foundation of the altars, because they are respected, while their companions are trampled underfoot.
He who defeats his desires is stronger. For he alone is bold and brave, who conquers himself.
All that man is in virtuality, his deeds show in reality.
The one who is afraid to enjoy a good should not be considered wonderful from the perspective of morality. Good and wonderful is he for whom all that is good is good, and who is not corrupted by such things as wealth and power.
He who finds no pleasure in solitude is either a wild animal or a god.
He who has many friends has none.
The destruction of one is the birth of another.
Philosophy or the love of wisdom contains in itself wonderful pleasures in their purity, and stability, and certainly those who are endowed with the science of spending their time in contemplation have more satisfaction than those who only seek this science.