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
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.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
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.
Friendship is communion.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.