Aristotle Wish Quotations

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

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

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

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