Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven. His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.
Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them...
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
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.
One has no friend who has many friends.
Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.
Friendship is communion.