Aristotle Quotes

The law is reason, free from passion... view

By: Aristotle

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

By: Aristotle

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more... view

By: Aristotle

The end of labor is to gain leisure... view

By: Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life... view

By: Aristotle

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness... view

By: Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead... view

By: Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke... view

By: Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances... view

By: Aristotle

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes... view

By: Aristotle

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold... view

By: Aristotle

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit... view

By: Aristotle

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching... view

By: Aristotle

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain... view

By: Aristotle

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons... view

By: Aristotle

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history.. view

By: Aristotle

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved... view

By: Aristotle

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god... view

By: Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet... view

By: Aristotle

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence.. view

By: Aristotle

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world... view

By: Aristotle

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends... view

By: Aristotle

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference... view

By: Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work... view

By: Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance... view

By: Aristotle

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness... view

By: Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities... view

By: Aristotle

Quality is not an act, it is a habit... view

By: Aristotle

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms... view

By: Aristotle

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind... view

By: Aristotle

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures... view

By: Aristotle

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth... view

By: Aristotle

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

By: Aristotle

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do... view

By: Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace... view

By: Aristotle

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one... view

By: Aristotle

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time... view

By: Aristotle

Well begun is half done... view

By: Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit... view

By: Aristotle

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions... view

By: Aristotle

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill... view

By: Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence... view

By: Aristotle