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Aristotle Quotes about Friendship

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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

Friendship, Wish, Should

See Bible 225; Chesterfield 4; Confucius 9; Hillel 2

A friend is another I.

Friendship

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

Friendship, Uplifting, Feelings

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Friendship, Advantage, Possessed

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Love, Friendship, Family

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Eudemian Ethics”, p.69, Aeterna Press

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friendship, Best Friend, Fake Friends

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

He who hath many friends hath none.

Love, Friendship, Relationship

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

A friend is a second self.

Life, Friendship, Self

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.335

Friendship is communion.

Friendship, Communion

Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.260

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.

Inspirational, Friendship, Errors

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Love, Friendship, Truth

Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.201, Hackett Publishing

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Love, Friendship, Family

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Inspirational, Friendship, Art

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Friendship, Fake Friends, Wisdom

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.

Friendship, Men, Perfection

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1827, Princeton University Press

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Friendship, People, Justice

Aristotle, Robert C. Bartlett, Susan D. Collins (2012). “Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”, p.164, University of Chicago Press

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.

Life, Friendship, True Friend

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Friendship, Real, Justice

Aristotle (1811). “Works”, p.508

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