Aristotle Quotes About Friendship

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  • 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.

    Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1827, Princeton University Press
  • Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

    Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Eudemian Ethics”, p.69, Aeterna Press
  • Friendship is essentially a partnership.

  • The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

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

    Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.201, Hackett Publishing
  • A friend to all is a friend to none.

  • Friendship is communion.

    Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.260
  • Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

    In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20
  • He who hath many friends hath none.

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

    Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.603, Simon and Schuster
  • All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

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

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

    Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
  • We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

    See Bible 225; Chesterfield 4; Confucius 9; Hillel 2
  • Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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

    Aristotle, Robert C. Bartlett, Susan D. Collins (2012). “Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”, p.164, University of Chicago Press
  • Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

    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 is a second self.

    Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.335
  • A friend is another I.

  • 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.

  • Between friends there is no need of justice.

    Aristotle (1811). “Works”, p.508
  • 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.

    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”
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Aristotle

  • Born: 384 BC
  • Died: 322 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher