Quotes by Aristotle

He who hath many friends hath none.

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.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.