Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle · Opening of his treatment of friendship; standard English translation from the Greek.
Aristotle · Opening of his treatment of friendship; standard English translation from the Greek.
More from Aristotle
Often credited to Aristotle · A modern reworking: what Diogenes Laertius records is Aristotle's answer to the question "What is a friend?", namely "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Aristotle · The conclusion of his argument in the Nicomachean Ethics that happiness is the one thing we want for its own sake. The popular line "Happiness depends upon ourselves" is a paraphrase of the same book, not his words.
Aristotle · The opening sentence of the Metaphysics, in W. D. Ross's standard English translation.
More Friendship Quotes
Ann Landers · The opening line of her "Love or Infatuation?" column, the piece readers asked her to rerun more than any other; it continues "It takes root and grows, one day at a time."
Attributed to Walter Winchell · Winchell printed a version in his 1933 column, but the saying was already in circulation by 1916 and nobody knows who coined it.
William Shakespeare · Polonius's parting advice to his son Laertes.
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