Aristotle Quotes About Love

• Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

  Aristotle

  Love, Friendship, Family

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

• Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

  Aristotle

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

• They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

  Aristotle

  Love, Hate, Mistake

• To love someone is to identify with them.

  Aristotle

  Love, Love Someone

• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Love, Life, Positive

  Attributed to Aristotle in Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" translated by C. D. Yonge and Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

• Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

  Aristotle

  Love, Heart, Giving

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

  Aristotle

  Love, Friendship, Truth

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

• He who hath many friends hath none.

  Aristotle

  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”

• Friendship is essentially a partnership.

  Aristotle

  Love, Friendship, Family

• The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

  Aristotle

  Love, Finals, Causes

• Love is the cause of unity in all things.

  Aristotle

  Love, Unity, Causes

  Aristotle (1933). “Oeconomica”

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