Quotes by Aristotle

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. >>

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonab >>

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they >>

Quotations about Youth

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best pai >>

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of sin >>

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. >>

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle