“It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.”
— Aristotle
“Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.”
— Aristotle
“To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.”
— Aristotle
“Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.”
— Aristotle
“The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.”
— Aristotle
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”
— Aristotle
“Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.”
— Aristotle
“For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.”
— Aristotle