Friendship Aristotle Quotes & Sayings

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together. — Aristotle.

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

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

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

Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body. — Aristotle.

The friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves. — Aristotle.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity. — Aristotle.

Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense. — Aristotle.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. — Aristotle.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it. — Aristotle.

Aristotle said that friendship is only possible between two virtuous people. Therefore, friendship between us is impossible. — Sylvain Reynard

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing. — Aristotle.

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers ... of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good ... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found ... This is the meaning of the riddle of the improbable philosopher-kings. They have a true community that is exemplary for all other communities. — Allan Bloom

A friend is another I. — Aristotle.

Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle.

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish. — Aristotle.

For Aristotle, friendship in its highest form has a political or civic dimension. We love our friends not just because we like each other or are useful to each other, but because we share the same values and ideals for our society, and come together to advance those ideals. — Jules Evans

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.

Exemplary friendship embraces, in a resolutely unrequited way, an unwearied capacity for loving generously without being loved back. Marking the limit of possibility - the friend need not be there - this structure recapitulates in fact the Aristotelian values according to which acts and states of loving are preferred to the condition of being-loved, which depends for its vigor on a mere potentiality. Being loved by your friend just pins you to passivity. For Aristotle, loving on the contrary, constitutes an act. To the extent that loving is moved by a kind of disclosive energy, it puts itself out there, shows up for the other, even where the other proves to be a rigorous no-show. Among other things, loving has to be declared and known, and thus involves an element of risk for the one who loves and who, abandoning any guarantee of reciprocity, braves the consequences when naming that love. — Avital Ronell

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship. — Aristotle.

The soul of one person can become intertwined with the soul of another. Aristotle is supposed to have said: "What is friendship? It is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." The ancient term for such a relationship is "soul friend," defined as one with whom I have no secrets. The ancient Celtic Christians said that "a person without a soul friend is like a body without a head. — John Ortberg

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

Frequently, friendship is represented as something too steadily pleasant, or in certain of the masterpieces of the past -- Aristotle and Cicero, for example -- as pervaded by a constant mutual understanding and a gentle calm. Friendship is also an emotional relationship, with involvement that can get hot at times, like any other deep involvement with a person. — Stuart Miller

Friendship is communion. — Aristotle.

For though the wish for friendship comes quickly, friendship does not. — Aristotle.

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. — J. Paul Getty

A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle.

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. — Mortimer Adler

What is evil neither can nor should be loved; for it is not one's duty to be a lover of evil or to become like what is bad; and we have said that like is dear to like. Must the friendship, then, be forthwith broken off? Or is this not so in all cases, but only when one's friends are incurable in their wickedness? If they are capable of being reformed one should rather come to the assistance of their character or their property, inasmuch as this is better and more characteristic of friendship. But a man who breaks off such a friendship would seem to be doing nothing strange; for it was not to a man of this sort that he was a friend; when his friend changed, therefore, and he is unable to save him, he gives him up. — Aristotle.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. — Aristotle.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle.

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth. — Aristotle.

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