亚里士多德经典语录

1. 吾爱吾师，吾更爱真理。

   Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

2. 求知是所有人的本性。

   All men by nature desire to know.

3. 幸福是至善。

   Happiness is the highest good.

4. 幸福就是灵魂合乎德性的活动。

   Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

5. 人类天生就是政治动物。

   Man is by nature a political animal.

6. 德性乃中庸：过度与不及之间的中道。

   Virtue is a mean between two vices, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

7. 友谊是一个灵魂寄居于两个身体。

   Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

8. 教育之根苦涩，其果甘甜。

   The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

9. 任何人都能发怒——那很容易；但发怒要选择正确的对象、分寸、时机、理由和方式——却不简单。

   Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

10. 我们不是为了了解德性，而是为了成为良善之人。

    We are not studying in order to know what virtue is, but to become good.

11. 能传授才是真知。

    The sign of knowledge is the ability to teach.

12. 道德德性由习惯养成。

    Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit.

13. 即使神明也无法使已发生之事不发生。

    Even God cannot make what has been done not to have been done.

14. 哲学始于惊奇。

    It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize.

15. 教育是顺境中的装饰，逆境中的避难所。

    Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

16. 严肃之人模仿高尚的行动，轻浮之人模仿卑下的行径。

    Serious men imitate noble actions; trivial men imitate those of the base.